- Communicate the availability of medical screening or other employee health resources (e.g., on-site nurse or employee wellness program to check for flu-like symptoms before employees enter the workplace).
- Employers also should consider installing physical barriers, such as clear plastic sneeze guards, to protect employees where possible (such as cashier stations).
Administrative Controls
- Work with your employees so that they understand the office leave policies, policies for getting paid, transportation issues, and day care concerns.
- Make sure that employees know where supplies for hand and surface hygiene are located.
- Work with your employees to designate a person(s), website, bulletin board or other means of communicating important pandemic flu information.
- Use signs to keep customers informed about symptoms of the flu, and ask sick customers to minimize contact with your employees until they are well.
- Your workplace may consider limiting access to customers and the general public, or ensuring that they can only enter certain areas of your workplace.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Employees who have high-frequency, close contact with the general population that cannot be eliminated using administrative or engineering controls, and where contact with symptomatic ill persons is not expected should use personal protective equipment to prevent sprays of potentially infected liquid droplets (from talking, coughing, or sneezing) from contacting their nose or mouth. A surgical mask will provide such barrier protection. Use of a respirator may be considered if there is an expectation of close contact with persons who have symptomatic influenza infection or if employers choose to provide protection against a risk of airborne transmission. It should be noted that wearing a respirator may be
