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SHRM Provides Businesses H1N1 Toolkit, Podcast, and Advice

SHRM Provides Businesses H1N1 Toolkit, Podcast, and Advice

In response to the H1N1 flu pandemic, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) partnered with the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, The Clorox Company, and the Community Health Charities to create tools HR professionals could use to combat H1N1 in the workplace.

 

The comprehensive H1N1 resources include three toolkits and a podcast:

 

  1. Doing Business During an Influenza Pandemic: Human Resource Policies, Protocols, Templates, Tools, & Tips,” created by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and SHRM, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Designed to help organizations of all sizes, the toolkit provides businesses a blueprint to improve their current disaster preparedness/ pandemic plans, and federal guidance H1N1.

 

  1. The Flu Preparedness & Prevention Educational Kit produced by The Clorox Company’s Preventative Health Advisory Board (PHAB) of which SHRM is a member. To view the toolkit, please visit: http://www.cloroxprofessional.com/H1N1.

 

  1. The SHRM Online portal and toolkit, SHRM H1N1 (Swine) Flu Resources, features the latest H1N1 workplace news, and resources including the Tips for Managers Dealing with H1N1 in the Workplace,” and SHRM’s H1N1 Pandemic Checklist.”

 

  1. SHRM also partnered with the Community Health Charities in H1N1 prevention and response by participating in the Health Matters at Work™ video podcast series. The Health Matters at Work three-part series on H1N1 will debuts mid November. To view the video podcast offering H1N1 prevention and response tips, please visit: http://www.healthmattersatwork.org/chc.asp?bid=265.

The recently released SHRM poll, The H1N1 Virus – How Prepared is Your Workplace?,” provides a pulse check of how organizations currently are responding to the H1N1 flu, what policies they have instituted, what they do should an employee get sick, and other important employer responses to H1N1.

Preparing for H1N1 in the Workplace: HR Experts Urge Congress to Utilize SHRM Resources

Preparing for H1N1 in the Workplace:
HR Experts Urge Congress to Utilize SHRM Resources

How to respond to the H1N1 pandemic is a question on the minds of many Americans – including millions of employers.  To assist in helping your constituents deal with the many questions facing employers, employees and American families, SHRM has prepared a […Read More…]

Steve Miranda discussing H1N1

SHRM’s Chief HR and Content Integration Officer, Steve Miranda, recently taped a webcast about H1N1 in the workplace for the Community Health Charities.
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SHRM Testifies Before Senate Hearing on H1N1 and Paid Sick Leave

SHRM Testifies Before Senate Hearing on H1N1 and Paid Sick Leave

by Lisa Horn, SHRM Manager, Health Care

Yesterday, Labor Relations Special Expertise Panel Member Elissa O’Brien testified on behalf of SHRM before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families at a hearing titled the Cost of Being Sick:  H1N1 and Paid […Read More…]

SHRM Prepares for H1N1 Influenza

SHRM Prepares for H1N1 Influenza
by Kathleen A. Coulombe

With the early outbreak in 2008 of H1N1 Influenza, SHRM and HR professionals across the country identified a need to be prepared for a more serious and widespread pandemic in 2009.  In preparation, SHRM and the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of […Read More…]

Back from the Work Life Congress…

Thank you for tweeting us your views on what a 21st Century Workplace means to you!  SHRM is back from the Work Life Congress and ready to reenergize its commitment to work-life flexibility issues.  Mary Kaylor, Global Public Relations Manager, shares her take on the Conference.

Working Mothers — and Fathers — united on October 27-29 […Read More…]

SHRM Rolls Out Five-Year Plan on HRE Online

“After SHRM announced its new five-year plan — with an emphasis on attracting senior HR executives, developing world-class research, operating as a financially sustainable organization, expanding its adviser and advocacy roles, serving the HR needs of non-HR professionals and expanding into emerging global markets — CEO Laurence O’Neil discusses SHRM’s future.”

Excerpt from “SHRM Rolls out […Read More…]

Updates from Buenos Aires, Argentina

We have updates from Rosaura Barrera, Global Relations Manager of International Programs at SHRM!

On Sept 24, Rosaura shared more of the Argentina experience: “Here we are with Graciela Garone and Gustavo Perrico, who were both really excited to meet us and start networking with other members.  The prior evening, Graciela hosted Brian and I at the University […Read More…]

¡Buenas Tardes desde Buenos Aires!

(Photo provided by Brian Glade, Vice President of International Programs at SHRM; Translation assistance provided by Marcela León, SHRM Member Care Representative.)

El equipo de Programas Internacionales de SHRM ha llegado a Buenos Aires para participar en el 21º Congreso Interamericano de Gestión Humana.
El conferencia atrae participantes locales y internacionales.  Este año, el tema es ¿El […Read More…]

SHRM Government Affairs in Action

SHRM Government Affairs in Action
by Kathleen Coulombe,  Manager, Tax & Benefits

The week of September 14th was a busy one for the SHRM Government Affairs team as they continued to raise SHRM’s visibility with key policy stakeholders.  The week kicked off with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s (CHCI) Chairman’s Welcome Reception as part of their annual […Read More…]