Keith McClanahan

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Research Facilities Group
H1N1 Spot Survey Results

• Keith McClanahan
• Facility Issues
• [phone]
• keithmcc_at_facilityissues.com

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H1N1 Spot Survey

• Background
• Survey Distributed by email to 124 RFB members on
  distribution list
• As of May 19th there were 12 respondents
• Five National Laboratories
• One not-for profit
• Six industrial firms

Facility Issues
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H1N1 Spot Survey

• Q1. Does your corporation / organization have a
  policy or plan related to the H1N1 (swine flu)
  virus?
• All have corporate pandemic plans

Facility Issues
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H1N1 Spot Survey

• Q2. Is there a facility component to this plan?
• Three reported that their plan does not contain a
  facilities component.

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H1N1 Spot Survey

• Q3. What are the components to the plan?
• Many plans tied to WHO phases
• Daily Steering Committee meetings
• Monitoring CDC and local health agency reports
• Internet blog for employees
• Company wide
• Installing touchless restroom equipment

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H1N1 Spot Survey

• Q4. Best Practices
• Encouraged everyone to register for the WARN
  system which provides notification by cell phone,
  text messages, pagers , telephones and e-mail.
• Timely communications and web-based updates
• Established pandemic steering committee
• Documented plan describing company actions that
  may be taken
• Issued hygiene guidelines
• Monitoring the progress of the flu.
• Custodial scope changes, restroom fixture
  replacements
• Developing action levels in response to a
  Pandemic that will be understood by all who
  follow the Pandemic Plan
• Web page with frequently asked questions to keep
  employees aware of how to respond in the event of
  an emergency

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H1N1

• Q5. Travel Restrictions?
• Travel to Mexico typically restricted - or
  requires high level approval

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H1N1

• Q6. Work from home options
• Remote computer access to identified personnel -
  capacity does not exist for all employees to work
  remotely at this time.
• Enhancing systems to allow for a large increase
  in off-site access.
• Already provides a work from home option via
  SecureID/VPN
• Over 90 of our employees can work from home with
  Latop an Broadband connection
• Employees that are experiencing flu-like symptoms
  are encouraged to work from home

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