Flu pandemic protection
December 1st 2007 HSBC has collaborated with PHS
Direct to develop Flu Pandemic
Hygiene Packs for all business
locations.Having learned from
measures taken to protect staff
from SARS in the Far East that
asking staff to clean and sanitise
their own work stations would also
reduce the incidence of general
sickness and absenteeism amongst
the workforce, HSBC was keen to
repeat the exercise in the UK.
HSBC's Flu Pandemic Hygiene
Packs contain the tools to help staff
keep workplace cross-infection in
check, including alcohol-based
waterless hand sanitisers, antibacterial
keyboard and VDU wipes
and anti-bacterial sprays.
"While we hope they'll never be
needed, our experience of
understanding hand hygiene and
infection control products has
A training brochure from NQA and
JPD Training highlights more than
30 health and safety courses that
are available until April 2008.
Courses offered include IOSH and
NEBOSH qualifications for
managing and working safely, Risk
Assessment, Fire Safety,Manual
Handling, and PAT Testing.
Training is provided at purposebuilt
training centres in Cheshire
and Bedfordshire; public courses
are held in 20 venues around the
UK. Class sizes are kept small.
helped us supply HSBC with Flu
pandemic Hygiene Packs that,
properly used, will be effective in
reducing the spread of disease
internally.The virus presents a very
real threat, and the impact will be
swift and dramatic. HSBC has
thought through contingencies for
an outbreak, and this is part of their
planning response," says James
Clark,md, PHS Direct. More articles from PHS Group plc: | 
