Cold and flu season – social distancing and sneeze etiquette

With the cold and flu season now in full swing, is your company using social distancing techniques and introducing cough and sneeze etiquette into the workplace to help ensure that the impact to your staff is minimized?

By implementing these two methods of controlling the spread of flu viruses and cold germs now, your staff will be aware of these methods and will be comfortable with their use within your company. This knowledge will mean that should an Influenza Pandemic occur and the World Health Organization (WHO) raises their alert level to stage 4; it will be to your companies benefit if social distancing and sneeze and cough etiquette can be implemented quickly and efficiently.

For an article on Social Distancing you can go to:

http://www.chacocanyon.com/pointlookout/060510.shtml

For information on Cough and Sneeze Etiquette see:

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/covercough.htm