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Below is the Table of Contents and an explanation of each section of Clean Harbors' Avian Influenza Preparedness Plan.

Introduction

In order to address the potential for a pandemic flu outbreak, Clean Harbors is developing a plan to be used as a preparedness-planning guide. The primary objectives of the plan are to protect employees, preserve our business and respond to events that result from infection, or transmission of this virus or related strains. In order to effectively control and minimize the impact caused by a viral pandemic, the cooperation, patience and perseverance of all employees will be needed. Currently, there has been no significant human-to-human (H2H) transmission of the virus. This plan is intended to provide us with the tools needed should such transmission become widespread.

Basic Planning

Clean Harbors is developing an Avian Influenza (AI) Pandemic Plan that lays out steps and ways that the company will prepare for a flu pandemic before it arrives, and respond to the pandemic once it is here. The plan's goal is to protect our employees, preserve our business and to maintain a level of service to our customers. By managing the impact of influenza pandemic on our employees and business, we will contain the disease by reducing the spread within business facilities and maintain the essential services if containment is not possible.

Employee Health and Welfare

This section reviews influenza symptoms, personal and family information, availability of vaccine and anti-viral medication and workplace procedures to minimize spread of influenza in the workplace and off the job. It also addresses training, workplace entry restrictions, personal hygiene, ventilation, and isolation of workforce, including protective barriers for personnel that have face-to-face public contact. The plan also addresses respiratory protection and personal protective equipment, workplace cleaning, and special precautions for Clean Harbors Field Services crews. Furthermore, the plan addresses managing staff who become sick at work and the ability of employees to work remotely.

Business Continuity Planning

The primary focus of Business Continuity Planning is to identify the various components and elements of a plan which will assure under the most extreme of circumstances that the business will have a defined plan to continue operations. The expectation of the defined plan is to preserve some level of business or if need be to assure that security, compliance and health and safety is preserved.

Some components of the business continuity plan are succession planning, scenario planning, remote information technology access and applications, vendor management and quality customer service. The most important component of the Business Continuity Planning is to assure continued and uninterrupted communication between business location, employees, vendors and customers.

Resolution Phase of Pandemic

Historical data indicates that once a pandemic peaks, additional "waves" can continue for a period of time until the pandemic is over. Clean Harbors' plan will address continued necessary actions as these additional "waves" take place. The company will activate a process for recovered/well employees to return to work, and manage towards a return to business as normal.

Clean Harbors provides the information contained herein solely for the purpose of keeping its employees, customers and others informed of the measures Clean Harbors is taking to respond to an outbreak of flu and provide potential sources of additional information about the disease. This communication should not be misconstrued or relied upon as a source for medical advice or as the resource for providing official government directives concerning the disease. Readers should access the official web pages of government agencies, some of which are listed herein as sources for Informaton about flu as well as other sources which may not be listed herein, as the official government source(s) for information on any outbreak of the disease. Clean Harbors will periodically update its information as it deems appropriate but is under no obligation to do so and cautions readers not to rely solely upon this web page as your sole source for information about the disease and its impact on individuals and organizations beyond Clean Harbors.

Sources for Flu Information

    • Find a Flu Shot Location in Your Area - U.S. Only (English, Espaņol)
    • The World Health Organization H1N1 Flu Web Site (English, Franįais, Espaņol)
    • U.S. Government Flu Website (English, Espaņol)
    • Government of Canada - One-stop access to information from Government of Canada departments and agencies on pandemic, H1N1 and seasonal influenza (English, Franįais)
    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) H1N1 Flu Web Site (English, Espaņol)
    • OSHA - Guidance for Protecting Workers against H1N1 Flu (English, Espaņol)
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  • Dictionary of Terms
  • Alert Levels
  • Preparation Kit
  • Influenza Hygiene
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