The Occupational Safety and Health Administration outlined steps for employers to reduce workplace exposure to pandemic influenza. These include:
- Encouraging sick employees to stay home.
- Encouraging employees to wash their hands frequently with soap and water or with hand sanitizer.
- Encouraging employees to cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue.
- Avoiding close contact with co-workers and customers, keeping at least 6 feet of separation.
- Regularly cleaning telephones, computers and other workplace surfaces and equipment.
- Discouraging employees from using other employees' phones or equipment.
