Date & Time
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
   |   
7:00 am
PDT
   |   Webinar

Littler Mendelson's Workplace Safety Practice Group invites you to join us for a focused and timely webinar on Tuesday, May 5th, to learn all about this latest outbreak of influenza that employers are hearing about in the news. Swine influenza A (H1N1) is making headlines everywhere with over 100 confirmed cases in more than 10 states within the United States and many more globally. Employers need to assess their risk and respond appropriately with defined steps. The CDC is encouraging employers and the public not to panic, but rather implement pandemic plans and to take precautionary measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Littler will provide you with valuable insight into such plans and risks in the workplace, precautions that employers should take to maintain a safe work environment, and what to do when an employee self discloses that he or she has recently traveled to a location where the virus has been confirmed or that he or she has been confirmed with swine influenza.

Topics covered at this seminar will include among others:

  • What are the symptoms of swine flu?
  • How is it spread and how can it be prevented?
  • What is the treatment -- including how long will an employee potentially be out of work and/or contagious?
  • Can the employer send home employees before they show symptoms?
  • Should the employer provide face masks and what cleaning and protective steps should be taken at work?
  • How to respond when a employee self-discloses his/her infection?
  • Practical tips for handling contagious employees and return to work issues.
  • What other laws come into play when an employee self-discloses that he or she has the flu?
  • If the schools close, mass transits shuts down, or employees are too scared to come to work, what are the employer's options?

Additional insight will be provided from our Ius Laboris connections from Mexico and from Canada, who dealt with the SARS outbreak.

Littler 's Workplace Safety Practice Group has extensive experience in pandemic planning and implementation. The Group involves attorneys in nearly every Littler office across the nation. Our Workplace Safety attorneys are not only experienced in representing clients in litigation matters before state and federal OSH agencies, performing worksite OSH audits and reviewing/creating OSH programs for clients, they are also experts in Mine Safety and Health, drug testing, workplace violence, and all other issues relating to workplace safety. Littler also has on staff a non-lawyer OSHA expert with an extensive background both as a private consultant and an industrial hygienist for Cal-OSHA, and is available to provide excellent consultative services in any occupational safety or health related matter that does not require legal advice.

Speakers

Steve Biddle

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Craig R. Benson

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