Roberta Witty

I am doing some research regarding when an organization should invoke their pandemic preparedness plan(s) from a business operations perspective. I’m not talking about the personal hygiene/medical aspects, but the business operations impact view. Tell me how your firm is handling the issues expressed in the questions below.

1. How do you determine when to invoke pandemic preparedness plans such as workforce isolation and social distancing? Is it by absenteeism rate? Some other data point? If absenteeism rate, are you monitoring the change between the normal rate of say 5-7% and the pandemic influenced rate?

2. How are you invoking your plans – by enterprise, by location, by department? Are you conferring with your pandemic crisis management team in doing so?

3. How do you determine when you will issue a stand down order?