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Consultants scramble to offer firms swine flu advice
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What happens when your business is suffering through a recession and news spreads about a possible flu pandemic? Go for it.
In the past five days, Miami Herald business reporters have been bombarded with announcements from consultants, risk managers and lawyers about how they can help get companies get through this threat.
So far, only one death in the United States has been confirmed by health officials to be linked with swine flu, now being called A/H1N1 because there's no proven link with pigs. Even so, experts stand ready to help.
''You need infrastructure and systems in place to weather the impacts of a pandemic,'' Miami-Dade risk management firm ERM Risk warned in a corporate e-mail. ''Worker absenteeism, lost income, scarce supplies, supply chain disruptions. . . A pandemic's impact to mankind and the economy could be devastating.
''Business continuity plans only go so far. Pandemic planning requires longer-term contingencies that are critical to anticipate. And regulators are increasingly requiring pandemic plans for financial institutions and many other industries. A pandemic's impact to mankind and the economy could be devastating. . . Don't get caught unprepared. Contact ERM to learn what you must do.''
The international law firm Morgan Lewis, which has an office in South Florida, has announced two 90-minute webcasts next week titled ''Appropriate Employer Responses to Swine Flu,'' which will offer ''an in-depth look into how employers can deal with the emergent issues and immediate questions that arise from the swine flu epidemic within the workforce. It will also focus on creating long-term emergency preparedness plans for future crisis situations.''
Meanwhile, IBM is offering ''experts who work with companies and organizations worldwide to help them minimize risk better than ever with smart workforce management. What companies need to do to prepare their workforce in lieu of a disaster such as the swine flu. It's important to build resiliency into your business operations, but it's just as important to build resiliency into your human capital. . . Few have fully addressed the human side of crisis preparedness.''
The website momlogic.com is promoting: ''Swine Flu: Protecting Yourself, the Natural Way.''
Offering advice that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public entities have failed to mention, Momlogic.com recommends dosing up on Vitamin D, cutting out sweets, rest, avoiding hospitals, and other natural steps.
In Illinois, CCH, part of the the law firm of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, is telling businesses to prepare wtih continuity planning, which it can provide. A CCH survey found that only one in four companies in 2007 had in place a plan to deal with a large percentage of its employees becoming ill.
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