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 From April 30 through May 6, ORC Worldwide conducted a survey into business response to the spread of the Influenza A H1N1 virus, specifically focussing on four areas:
- Business-related travel
- Post-travel-related actions
- Infection control and health protection
- Emergency evacuations of expatriates in affected areas
The key findings were:
- 84 percent of the companies responding reported having some type of business continuity or pandemic preparedness plan.
- Fewer than one-third of the respondents reported currently engaging in employee screening, with slightly fewer currently engaging in some type of screening of visitors or contractors.
- Less than 10 percent of the companies responding report handling packages from affected areas in a different fashion than packages from non-affected areas.
- Approximately 55 percent of responding companies implemented some changes to business travel practices as a result of the outbreak.
- Only 37 percent of the companies had implemented mandatory quarantine periods following travel to locations with confirmed cases of H1N1 virus with 58 percent of the respondents reporting that these quarantine periods are from five to 10 days in length.
- Of those companies reporting mandatory quarantine periods, slightly less than half (43.9 percent) allow employees to return to work without any medical screening.
Read the executive summary (PDF).
•Date:27th May 2009• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
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