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Lessons in Leadership: Pandemic Preparedness & Communication Planning

Event Date: 05/19/2009 11 AM Pacific / 1 PM Central / 2 PM Eastern

According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism[1], coverage of the Swine Flu consumed 43% of the reporting airtime last week! Did the press overreact or actually help contain the situation? One thing is for sure; we are collectively better prepared for a pandemic today than we were several weeks ago. Have you augmented your level of preparedness to be assured that if the worst case does occur you are ready to communicate your plan to all employees and stakeholders and minimize the effect of a pandemic on your business?

Join Dell and industry expert Tom Martin, Managing Director of Eagle Rock Alliance for this informative session on:
What the impact of a pandemic would be on your business

Lessons learned that can be taken from this recent swine flu experience.

What you can do now in your IT infrastructure to improve your preparedness
This session will provide critical guidance for CIOs, disaster planners and corporate executives that will help them navigate through an outbreak and develop response priorities.

Speakers:

Tom Martin, Managing Director, Eagle Rock Alliance
Mr. Martin has over 30 years of business management and technical experience as both a consultant and corporate executive. Mr. Martin’s early career included systems design, consulting and data center management, which provided a very strong foundation for work in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services. While serving in senior management roles at Sungard (Comdisco), Mr. Martin successfully pioneered many products, services and technology solutions for the disaster recovery industry. Mr. Martin developed the firms Advanced Recovery Solutions, in support of many Wall St. firms requirement for full data protection and “recovery to point of failure”, in the event of outages of all types.

Mr. Martin combines his strategic management experience, product innovation and financial expertise to aid corporations that need to enhance the value of their BC/DR investments and to enable more robust solutions in support of Business Continuity. Mr. Martin has developed many plans and conducted Table Top exercises which include Pandemic scenarios. Mr. Martin is a Managing Director with Eagle Rock Alliance, a leading Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery consulting organization.

Troy Winskowicz, Product Management, Dell Services
Troy Winskowicz supports global deployments of emergency notification services across millions of customers in many industries. For almost 10 years, Mr. Winskowicz has helped to shape the notification industry – by developing, specifying, managing, and deploying emergency notification tools. He has traveled around the world presenting at conferences and seminars on best practices of automated crisis communications. Mr. Winskowicz has authored many papers and articles on automated crisis communications that can be found in publications such as CPM Global Assurance and Disaster Recovery Journal.

MEXICO CITY.  Mexico’s health secretary says tests have confirmed two more deaths from swine flu, bringing the toll to 44.

MINNEAPOLIS.  Two more probable cases of swine flu were reported in Minnesota on Wednesday, both at Southwest High School in Minneapolis, according to the state Department of Health.

SOUTH CAROLINA.  Charleston County’s first case of swine flu was confirmed Wednesday.  It brings to 17 the number of South Carolinians who have tested positive for the H1N1 virus, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The others are connected to a private Newberry school trip to Mexico. The Charleston County case is unrelated to that trip.

UK.  Four more people, from different regions of England, have been confirmed as having swine flu, the Health Protection Agency said today, as the first school to close prepared to reopen.

Online and in the news we’re told by health experts at Harvard Medical School about symptoms we should be watching for the onset of the swine flu virus.  The swine flu protection mask is one precaution from catching and spreading the disease.

The initial symptoms of the swine flu virus are very much like the symptoms of other forms of flu viruses we see every year during flu season. Muscle aches and runny nose, fever and sore throat would be present accompanied in this type of flu by nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which doesn\’t commonly appear in other forms of flu, but which is more common with this swine flu. The sneezing and coughing symptoms spread the germs as they become airborn and is one reason that wearing the swine-flu protection mask offers some protection from catching the virus if you are in a community where this flu has emerged.

Doctors confronted with large numbers of persons exhibiting flu like symptoms are taking throat sample swabs or coughed up sample material to send to the state public health laboratory for testing.

There are several steps you can take to protect yourself from catching swine flu:

a. Wash your hands frequently or
b. Use alcohol-based hand cleaners
c. Do not shake hands or exchange kisses when greeting people.
d. Avoid contact with people with flu symptoms.
e. If you develop sneezing and coughing, be sure to use tissues to wipe your nose and cover your mouth. Always dispose of these tissues in the trash or toilet bowl.
f. You may want to wear a disposable swine-flu protective mask when you are in an environment where there is a person who has the flu symptoms or if you are in a community where an outbreak of the flu has occurred. Swine flu protective mask can be purchased at amazon.com.  Click here to buy the swine flu protection masks.