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Article: Pandemic protection: what to do in the workplace?(PANDEMIC preparedness)
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- Industrial Safety & Hygiene News
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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This article presents information about pandemic diseases (and more specifically H1N1) spreading throughout your place of business. Here are 15 simple points gathered from the nation's leading sources on pandemic preparedness:
1--Cover your cough--If you have to cough, show some manners, and consideration for the health of others ... You may already be ill and not know it. Think about others, too. Are your co-workers coughing? Have them cover their mouths. If you want to be really safe, prepare your workplace with masks. Many do not understand the difference in masks, but it is really quite simple: N95 and other "rated" and form fitting masks are to protect the ...