Announcements
H1N1 Preparedness and a Healthy Workplace at Tufts
Category: PostService
9.8.2009
To:
Faculty and Staff
From:
Patricia Campbell, Executive Vice President, and Kathe Cronin, Vice President for Human Resources
Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues:
In light of the H1N1 pandemic, we are focusing on how we can best prevent the spread of flu within our community.
As you know, hygiene and cleanliness are critically important in minimizing the transmission of both H1N1 and seasonal flu viruses. We are writing now to alert you to the availability through the Tufts Marketplace of the basic supplies that will help keep our work areas clean and healthy, including hand sanitizer, equipment wipes, and facial tissue. For the duration of the pandemic, we expect that offices across the university will make these supplies available as a routine preventive measure. While our budgets are constrained in a challenging fiscal environment, the very modest investment represented by these supplies will pay enormous dividends for all of us. These supplies are available for purchase through the normal online ordering process for the Tufts Marketplace at https://tufts.orgsupply.net/.
We continue to plan for the possible impact of the pandemic on administrative as well as academic operations. Key central administrative areas reporting to the Executive Vice President have developed business continuity plans that will allow mission-critical operations to continue in the face of what may be widespread absenteeism. All of us should be thinking about how we will maintain essential services in our areas in such circumstances.
Keeping our community healthy in the special circumstances of the pandemic may require temporary modifications to some of our usual HR policies, including those regarding sick leave. Should they become necessary, we will announce special measures designed to give staff the flexibility to recover if they are ill and to care for those members of their families who may be ill.
We will continue to monitor the health of the university community and the spread of illness within the region, and we will keep you informed as we respond to the changing situation. We have no doubt that working together we can respond effectively to the challenges posed by the H1N1 virus.
Sincerely,
Patricia Campbell, Executive Vice President, and Kathe Cronin, Vice President for Human Resources
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