The Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. For the second time this week, the Centers for Disease Control in the United States have raised its travel precautions - now to a Level 3. They are now recommending that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Wuhan, China.
Even though your company risk is likely very low, I am hoping your crisis management process has been activated. This is a short list of actions you need to be working on or have completed:
- Conduct an incident assessment team meeting
- Develop a SitStat report and provide to your crisis management team – plan on regular updates – perhaps daily
- Brief your executives
- Develop communications to all key stakeholders. Deploy those comms to your employees now and others as necessary
- Made decisions on travel to China and return to work from China. (Should they come back into the office?)
- Do your decisions on travel affect compensation? Make those HR decisions now.
- Look at your BCP’s for supply chain disruptions concerns
- What about your third-party vendors and key relationships – are they at risk?
- Assess meeting calendars – for example, do you want colleagues who have been in China coming to your office for the annual meeting?
- Check your PPE supplies – masks, hand sanitizer
- Revisit your pandemic plan
If nothing else, look at this as a great exercise and wonderful practice.
For more information:
https://drj.com/journal/getting-ready-for-the-unthinkable-pandemic-infectious-disease-pandemic-planning/
