Guide addresses Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a number of practical tools that business owner-operators and their contingency planners can use to enhance pandemic planning. The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Guide is one of these tools. This guide assembles in one place the primary government and pandemic influenza-specific background materials, references, and contacts. It introduces an enhanced contingency-planning process for a pandemic and identifies numerous sector-specific and common pandemic-influenza-planning variables keyed to escalating disaster phases.

This guide will complement and enhance, not replace, extensive private-sector contingency planning already in place. It urges private-sector business planners to expand on traditional notions of continuity of operations, because a pandemic is likely to test the limits of their current contingency plans. In addition, it highlights the basic roles and relationships of all governmental players, and provides insights into the significance of these relationships for business.

To access the guide, visit www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/pdf/cikrpandemicinfluenzaguide.pdf.