• Identify a pandemic coordinator and/or team with defined roles and responsibilities for preparedness and response planning. the planning process should include input from labor representatives.

• Identify essential employees and other critical inputs (e.g. raw materials, suppliers, sub-contractor services/ products, and logistics) required to maintain business operations by location and function during a pandemic.

• Train and prepare ancillary workforce (e.g. contractors, employees in other job titles/descriptions, retirees).

• Develop and plan for scenarios likely to result in an increase or decrease in demand for your products and/or services during a pandemic (e.g. effect of restriction on mass gatherings, need for hygiene supplies).

• Determine potential impact of a pandemic on company business financials using multiple possible scenarios that affect different product lines and/or production sites.

• Determine potential impact of a pandemic on business-related domestic and international travel (e.g. quarantines, border closures).

• Find up-to-date, reliable pandemic information from community public health, emergency management, and other sources and make sustainable links.

• Establish an emergency communications plan and revise periodically. this plan includes identification of key contacts (with back-ups), chain of communications (including suppliers and customers), and processes for tracking and communicating business and employee status.

• Implement an exercise/drill to test your plan, and revise periodically.

for more business check-lists and individual planning lists, please visit www.pandemicflu.gov