Pandemic Preparedness

Course Titles and Descriptions

Acute Respiratory Illness Pandemics: Prevention and Response

For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But respiratory disease pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses or influenza, are very serious. They often involve new strains of viruses to which people have developed no immunity. These kinds of viruses can spread quickly and widely, and they can pose a major global health threat. This training course is for all non-healthcare employees and provides information about how to prepare for and stay safe during an acute respiratory illness pandemic.

Acute Respiratory Illness Pandemics: Prevention and Response (Spanish)

Today, we’re going to talk about how to prepare for acute respiratory illness pandemics. For most healthy adults, seasonal viruses are not generally life-threatening. But as you’ve seen in the news, respiratory disease pandemics, such as those caused by coronaviruses or influenza, are something else. They often involve new strains of viruses to which people have developed no immunity. These kinds of viruses can spread quickly and widely, and they can pose a major global health threat. That’s why you need to know about acute respiratory illness pandemics and how to prepare for them.

Hoy, vamos a hablar sobre cómo prepararse para las pandemias de enfermedades respiratorias agudas. Para la mayoría de los adultos sanos, los virus estacionales generalmente no amenazan la vida. Pero como ha visto en las noticias, las pandemias de enfermedades respiratorias, como las causadas por coronavirus o influenza, son otra cosa. A menudo implican nuevas cepas de virus a los que las personas no han desarrollado inmunidad. Estos tipos de virus pueden propagarse rápida y ampliamente, y pueden representar una gran amenaza para la salud mundial. Es por eso que necesita saber sobre las pandemias de enfermedades respiratorias agudas y cómo prepararse para ellas.

Balancing Work and Home

This course explores the challenges many workers face in balancing work and home responsibilities. It introduces the concept of work/life integration, which focuses on blending personal and professional responsibilities rather than rigidly separating them. The course also provides practical tips for managing home tasks, work responsibilities, and the use of technology to reduce stress and maximize productivity. It also emphasizes that balancing these aspects requires both personal efforts and clear communication with employers.

Communicating Effectively in Emergencies: What Supervisors Need to Know

Unfortunately, there have been many situations where it has been shown that when an emergency occurred at the workplace employees didn’t get the information they needed to take appropriate action to protect their safety. Important information is often either not communicated effectively or not at all. As a supervisor, your job includes communicating emergency information to your employees. How effectively you communicate could make a big difference to the safety of your employees. This course is designed to help you learn how to communicate effectively in emergencies—whether they occur in the workplace or, like weather emergencies, they take place outside but affect the workplace and employees’ ability to get to work.

Communication Skills for Employees

This training session is going to talk about the skills required for effective communication on the job. Communication is the process by which people create and share information, and ideas with one another in order to reach mutual understanding and get work done. Effective communication in the workplace is therefore the foundation of positive and cooperative working relationships and productive, successful performance.

Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know (Spanish)

Fires, extreme weather, hazardous chemical spills and releases, acts of terrorism, pandemics, explosions, and active shooter situations. We don’t like to think about disasters happening, but the unfortunate reality is, they do happen―often bringing with them destruction, injuries, and sometimes even death. While we know we can’t stop many of these disasters from happening, there are steps you can take to both help prevent some of them and reduce the catastrophic results of others.

This course is for all employees and provides the information you need to successfully plan for and respond to disasters.

Incendios, condiciones climáticas extremas, derrames y liberaciones de sustancias químicas peligrosas, actos de terrorismo, pandemias, explosiones y situaciones de tirador activo. No nos gusta pensar en la posibilidad de desastres, pero la desafortunada realidad es que sí ocurren, y muchas veces traen consigo destrucción, lesiones, e incluso la muerte. Aunque sabemos que no podemos evitar que muchos de estos desastres ocurran, hay medidas que puede tomar tanto para ayudar a prevenir algunos de ellos como para reducir los resultados catastróficos de otros.

Este curso es para todos los empleados y proporciona la información que necesita para planificar y responder exitosamente a los desastres.

Disaster Planning: What Employees Need to Know

Fires, extreme weather, hazardous chemical spills and releases, acts of terrorism, pandemics, explosions, and active shooter situations. We don’t like to think about disasters happening, but the unfortunate reality is, they do happen―often bringing with them destruction, injuries, and sometimes even death. While we know we can’t stop many of these disasters from happening, there are steps you can take to both help prevent some of them and reduce the catastrophic results of others.

This course is for all employees and provides the information you need to successfully plan for and respond to disasters.

Home Safety

Accidents at home are the leading cause of injury-involved accidents. These accidents occur because there are no required rules to follow in the home, unlike the OSHA regulations we follow in the workplace. Many at-home injuries can be prevented if appropriate preventive measures are taken to eliminate or minimize hazards. This session is intended for all employees.

Keeping Yourself and Your Family Healthy

This presentation will cover how important it is that families be concerned about health. Preventive care, nutrition, exercise, and other factors play important roles. And especially for children, good health is essential—for them, now is the time when growth happens, some diseases may begin, and health habits are set for life.

Telecommuting and Other Alternative Work Arrangements for Employees

As the workforce becomes more diversified and employers struggle to cope with the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace, these arrangements are becoming more popular and more common.

The main objective of this course is to provide you with the information you need to successfully perform while telecommuting and in other alternative work arrangements, and to make the most of what they have to offer you and the organization.

Telecommuting and Other Alternative Work Arrangements for Supervisors

As the workforce becomes more diversified and employers struggle to cope with the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace, these arrangements are becoming more popular and more common.

The main objective of this course is to provide you with the information you need to successfully supervise telecommuters and other alternative work arrangements and to make the most of what they have to offer you, your employees, and the organization.