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How To Use The Department/Team Pandemic Planning Template

If you haven't yet downloaded our free pandemic planning template you can do so here. 

The most important thing to do is to encourage each department/team in your organisation to complete the template, helping you identify critical activities, key individuals and areas of risk.

The results of this can then be risk assessed, reviewed and concatenated into a single view, allowing you to understand the minimum resource (including skills) required to keep your business running and to form a range of mitigations that can be put in place during a pandemic. These may include restricting non-essential business travel, suspending non-essential work, redeploying people to focus on critical activities, appointing suppliers to help cover short term resource/skill shortages and arranging for people to work from home.

This is a good opportunity to consider how your people and operations may be impacted and how you can respond to limit any impact.

Once you have completed the department/team pandemic planning document, share this with the teams/individuals are involved in the mitigations, and work with them to train/up-skill them ahead of the pandemic. Once a pandemic is underway, it could be too late to train people to carry out tasks outside of their direct experience.