The company I work for has been proactive about a pandemic situation since 2006 by requiring all employees to attend an hour long presentation about pandemic preparedness. This approach has helped tremendously by ensuring employees are kept informed and trained. Each department has at least 2 hand santizing dispensers and reminders have been going out via email very often reminding employees about proper hygien practices as well as a revised attendance policy and various other steps being taken by the company. The company also provides free flu shots to all of its employees, this has been an ongoing project ever since I can remember and I've been with the company 11 years.

I work in the Hospitality industry and we are constantly reminding our employees of the importance of hand washing, etc. We have provided pocket sized hand sanitizers as well as have the units on the walls everywhere. We provide disinfecting wipes for all the offices and administative staff. That is an everyday thing here. As flu season approaches, we have posters throughout the employee areas with information. We also offer free flu shots to any employee willing to sign up for them. We have also posted all information on our internal website and our employee closed circuit TV. All of this had netted us great results over the last 4 years - we have not seen an increase in work disruption.

I distributed a memo to staff on how they can help reduce the spread of germs in the office, and posted flyers in all of the bathrooms reminding staff and guests to wash their hands frequently. Not sure if they appreciate the seriousness of this issue, but I did what I thought was right.

I forgot to add, we also buy a 8-ounce hand sanitizer bottle for each person's desk or work area, and we have giant-sized ones out in more public areas. When someone goes home sick or calls in sick, a small army of people (it seems) attacks that person's work area with disinfectant wipes and sprays. We remind everyone to sneeze into their arm, not their hands.

We remind employees that they should be aware of the flu season, by how to properly wash hands, etc. We however are a medical facility so we are all pretty trained and required to have a very clean facility. We have always offered the flu shot to all employees at no charge, on a voluntary basis. For this flu season we are also offering the 2 dose H1N1 but only in shot form vs the nasal spray.

Our IT department has made sure that everyone has remote access so they can work from home if need be. We also have a system that if we have to close our offices, the switchboard can be transferred. There are hand sanitizers at every desk and in all the common areas. There are also clorox wipes at every desk. The front desk is a shared space, and it must be wiped down completely after each person uses it. (phone, keyboard, mouse etc..). Our building manager comes through twice a day and wipes down all door handles, and light switches. There is also a container of small sanitizers in both our kitchen and front desk for visitors.