Public health officials – not to mention the pork industry — would rather we didn’t call it “swine flu” but by its official name H1N1.  Whatever you call it, H1N1 influenza is already a “pandemic.”  If that word weren’t worrying enough, the Center for Disease Control notes there are already 21 states reporting widespread influenza activity in the month of September 2009, noting: “Any reports of widespread influenza activity in September are very unusual.”

If you are like many business owners, you wonder (er, worry) about whether you’ll be able to keep your business running if employees and their families start coming down with H1N1.  How will you maintain operations?  That’s not even counting your concern over your employees’ well-being and that of yourself and your own loved ones.  Not to mention what will happen if customers start staying home.

We may all wish that H1N1 turns out to be much ado about nothing, like the bird flu scare of 2007 – but don’t count on it.  Here are 7 practical things you can do in your workplace to cut down the chances of you and your employees getting the H1N1 flu:

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