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From potential pandemics and catastrophic disasters like hurricanes and floods, to everyday environmental or occupational hazards such as gas leaks, chemical exposure or extreme temperatures – the first step to being prepared is an accurate accounting of the likely, potential and possible health-threats, emergencies and disasters your employees and your business face.

Workforce protection planning must be flexible, but as comprehensive as possible. It starts with carefully assessing the potential risks and exposures facing your respective industries, employees and regions. Risks then need to be prioritized based on probability, severity and both short-term impact and long-term implications. While enormous effort is put into writing a business continuity or emergency preparedness plan, there is a very real risk that the plan may not be practical to execute when disaster strikes. And, while your existing occupational health practices are critical to the health and safety of your workforce - if they do not incorporate preventive measures and routine health protection to help you avoid unnecessary risks and ensure continuity of operations; they may not be enough.

Assessing Preparedness: Evaluate Your Ability to Effectively Ensure Employee Health and Operational Resilience.

Which questions and answers will best prepare your business for long-term success – not just survival and minimum compliance? How can you best protect your most vital assets – your employees? From operational and cultural integration, to tools, expertise and technology – creating business resiliency and an organizational focus on employee health comes down to your ability to execute. Whether you need a new pandemic preparedness plan or to validate your disaster management preparedness, we can help. Review our Assessing Preparedness questions below to gauge your readiness.

How Do You Ensure Your Plan is Actionable? Can You Make Your Plan Practical and Operational?

You Don’t Need Another Guidebook or an Online Version of Your
Business Continuity Plan.

You need the tools to execute. Axion Health programs leverage years of expertise in public health, occupational and environmental health, internal medicine, respiratory medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, medical surveillance and hazard exposure management. Combined with hands-on experience in emergency disaster management and featuring the intuitive Axion Web Platform with integrated decision support, workflow, clinical services and compliance management – we take the guess work out of the equation and give your plan purpose and practicality – enabling you to execute. All you need is an Internet connection or a phone line – and in severe emergencies we can provide even more alternatives… Learn more about Axion Health Programs.


	Assessing Preparedness: Does Your Plan or Program Supply the Answers? How do you determine which health threats put your employees and business at risk? Have you determined what level of risk is acceptable? How do you communicate with your workforce in times of emergency? How do you communicate with your community and partners? How do you plan to reduce or manage serious workforce risks? When and how do you provide appropriate protective measures to employees? How do you respond to changing threats? How quickly can respond to new threats? How do you ensure employee availability and clearance? How do you fulfill legal compliance, certifications and reporting needs? How do you handle a large and geographically dispersed workforce? How is quality and availability of care ensured? How do you routinely assess your level of workforce protection? How do you know if an employee is able or fit to come to work, even if a prescription, antibiotic, personal protective equipment or vaccine has been issued? How quickly and easily can the program be implemented without sacrificing lasting value? How do you balance the level of preparedness you need with tight budgetary constraints?
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	OSHA News Release - 08/19/2009 Federal Guidelines Encourage Employers to Plan Now for Upcoming Influenza Season NY State is mandating HCW vaccinations: www.nytimes.com www.crainsnewyork.com

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