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Businesses in the travel industry?including travel agencies and air, rail, bus, and cruise lines?will play a key role in protecting the health and safety of their personnel and travelers in the event of a pandemic. Planning and coordinating with public health and emergency management agencies at the local, state, national, and international levels are critical.
To help with this, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed the following checklist. It identifies important steps that businesses in the travel industry can take now to prepare for an influenza pandemic. This checklist provides a general framework for developing a pandemic influenza plan. Individual businesses will need to adapt this checklist to meet their unique needs and circumstances. Many of these activities will also help travel-related businesses prepare for other kinds of emergencies. The key planning activities in this checklist are meant to complement and enhance existing all-hazards emergency/business contingency plans. For further information on general business emergency planning and continuity of operations, see www.ready.gov/business/. Further information on pandemic influenza planning can be found at www.pandemicflu.gov.
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Documents in PDF format require the Adobe Acrobat Reader?. If you experience problems with PDF documents, please download the latest version of the Reader?.
Businesses in the travel industry?including travel agencies and air, rail, bus, and cruise lines?will play a key role in protecting the health and safety of their personnel and travelers in the event of a pandemic. Planning and coordinating with public health and emergency management agencies at the local, state, national, and international levels are critical.
To help with this, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed the following checklist. It identifies important steps that businesses in the travel industry can take now to prepare for an influenza pandemic. This checklist provides a general framework for developing a pandemic influenza plan. Individual businesses will need to adapt this checklist to meet their unique needs and circumstances. Many of these activities will also help travel-related businesses prepare for other kinds of emergencies. The key planning activities in this checklist are meant to complement and enhance existing all-hazards emergency/business contingency plans. For further information on general business emergency planning and continuity of operations, see www.ready.gov/business/. Further information on pandemic influenza planning can be found at www.pandemicflu.gov.
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- Plan for the impact of an influenza pandemic on your business.
- Plan for the impact of an influenza pandemic on your employers and travelers.
- Establish policies and procedures to be implemented during an influenza pandemic.
- Allocate resources to protect your employees and travelers during an influenza pandemic.
- Educate and communicate with your employees and travelers.
- Coordinate with external organizations and help your community.