冠状病毒和大流行规划

As cases have now been confirmed in the states of New York, 佛罗里达州和罗德岛州, along with a second known death in Washington State, at least 74 Americans have now been infected by COVID-19 (冠状病毒). The CDC has provided their recommendations to prepare, prevent and protect ourselves and our loved ones. 但是雇主应该如何准备呢?

企业最佳实践

虽然疫情仍在蔓延，现在要知道它对企业的真正影响还为时过早, 业务连续性和弹性专家表示，现在是时候让各组织看看自己准备得如何，并制定计划，在旅行禁令和疾病的情况下保持业务运行.

“Update and review pandemic preparedness plans,克洛伊·德姆洛夫斯基说, president and CEO of 灾难恢复 Institute 国际, 哪个专注于帮助组织为灾难做好准备并从灾难中恢复. “If you don’t have one, now is the time to write one. It needs to have leadership buy-in and clear objectives, 全面的风险评估和对核心功能的潜在影响的分析, and it has to have pandemic-specific elements and strategies.”

 “您需要一个策略来优先处理关键流量，并确保合适的员工可以在场外访问您的系统,”她说。. 你还应该经常使用远程会议和其他通讯工具. If everyone practices work-from-home tools regularly, 在危机情况下，当它们变得必不可少时，它们将能够更好地使用它们.”

 “如果工厂长期关闭，制造商的日子会更难过, whether yours or an upstream supplier’s factories. 你们手头有现货吗, 你们现在能否为关键部件建立库存和/或你们是否有替代供应商? 

最重要的是, 现在就和你的员工沟通，让他们冷静下来，让他们知道你关心他们，并准备好尽可能保证他们的安全.”

所有雇主都需要考虑如何最好地减少急性呼吸道疾病的传播，并降低COVID-19在工作场所的影响. 雇主应确定并传达他们的目标，其中包括:

• 减少员工之间的传播;
• Protecting people who are at higher risk for adverse health complications,
• 维护业务运营，以及
• Minimizing adverse effects on other entities in their supply chains.

Recommendations for 业务连续性 amid the Crisis

随着疫情的发展，在规划员工安全和业务的持续健康时，请考虑以下建议.

• Actively encourage sick employees to stay home; separate sick employees
• Emphasize respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene by all employees
• 进行日常环境清洁
• Advise employees before traveling to take certain steps
• Understand the disease severity within your community
• Understand the impact of the disease to high-risk employees
• Prepare for increased numbers of employee absences due to:
  • illness in employees and their family members,
  • dismissals of early childhood programs and K-12 schools:
    • Plan to monitor and respond to absenteeism at the workplace.
• 如果你的缺勤率很高，执行计划继续重要的业务功能.
• 对人员进行交叉培训，使其履行基本职能，以便即使主要工作人员不在，工作场所也能正常运作.
• 评估你的基本功能，以及其他人和社区对你的bet9平台游戏或产品的依赖程度.
• 强烈鼓励所有企业与州和地方卫生官员进行协调，以便及时和准确的信息能够指导其业务所在的每个地点采取适当的应对措施.
• 审查人力资源政策，确保政策和做法符合公共卫生建议，并符合现有的州和联邦工作场所法律.
• 制定政策和程序，例如旅行限制、灵活的工作地点(例如.g., telecommuting) and flexible work hours (e.g.(如错班)，以增加员工之间和员工之间的物理距离.
• 确保员工能够轻松了解远程会议的政策和程序, remotely connect to systems and where to check for updated information.
• 确定基本业务功能, 基本工作或角色, and critical elements within your supply chains (e.g., 原材料, 供应商, 分包商的bet9平台游戏/产品, and logistics) required to maintain business operations.
• 确保业务技术能够支持高效和有效的远程工作能力, through stress testing you remote capabilities and communication tools.
• 建立权威机构, 触发器, 以及启动和终止公司传染病爆发应对计划的程序.
• 建立一个流程，持续沟通，并使员工和业务伙伴能够获得有关传染病爆发应对计划的信息. 预料到员工的恐惧、焦虑、谣言和错误信息，并相应地计划沟通.
• 为访问者建立一个流程，以帮助了解他们可能给您的组织带来的威胁和风险.
  • Where have they traveled over the past two weeks?
  • 他们和过去两周内旅行过的人有过接触吗?
  • 了解他们在过去两周内与去过限制疫区或熟悉疫区的任何人的接触情况.

Throughout this process and as the pandemic expands, employers must effectively communicate their plans with employees, explaining what human resources policies, 工作场所的灵活性, 并支付, benefits and leave will be available to them.

If you have questions on pandemic planning for your organization, we would welcome a discussion on this increasing concern.