Can flu be avoided? simple steps

There are some steps that the employer (and the employees) can take to reduce the number of cases of flu. These steps are largely about providing suitable facilities and passing information to the workforce on how best to use these.

• Consider a simple communications campaign informing workers of the benefits to good hand hygiene at this time of year
• Promote good hand hygiene practice by providing simple awareness raising materials, such as posters and stickers in the washrooms
• Reinforce the simple message:
• cover your nose and mouth with a clean tissue when you cough or sneeze and then throw away the tissue promptly and hygienically
• As well as providing adequate hand washing facilities, promote the use of a suitable hand sanitiser
• If appropriate to the type of work that you do, provide some form of "hand hygiene on the move", such as by the provision of a handy personal issue sanitiser
• Review your cleaning operations for the winter period and consider moving to damp rather than dry dusting and consider the use of suitable surface sanitisers
• Raise awareness to the flu vaccination programme available from the NHS

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