Help reduce the risk of influenza for your employees, their families and your community. Employers have a unique opportunity to educate a large number of people about preventing the flu.
This toolkit includes resources to help you organize and promote a workplace flu vaccination day.
Workplace Fact:
Influenza affects up to 10% of the US workforce annually, costing billions of dollars due to absenteeism and lost productivity.
CONTENTS
Implementing Your Program:
- Making the case for workplace flu clinics
- Planning Checklist
- Commercial vaccinators in WA
- Myths and Facts About Influenza
- Vaccine Information Statement, Inactivated
- Vaccine Information Statement, Live
- References
Promotional materials:
Other Toolkit Resources:
What is the difference between pandemic flu and seasonal flu?
An influenza—or flu—pandemic is an outbreak of a new type of flu virus that spreads rapidly from one country to another. For more on the differences between seasonal flu and pandemic flu—and for information on how to prepare for a pandemic—visit the Washington State Department of Health's pandemic flu website at www.doh.wa.gov/panflu/.
Developed by the Immunization Action Coalition of Washington, a program of WithinReach.
For more information, email ginnyh@withinreachwa.org.