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Common colds: Information for workforce Common colds: Information for workforce
Share the space, not the germs
Sharing an open-plan work space can be uncomfortable when nearby colleagues develop a cold. On this website you will find tips to help prevent colds and to stop them from spreading ... creating a more pleasant work environment for everyone.
Free resources
Here are some ways you can educate your staff to manage common colds in the workplace:
- OH&S committee toolbox talk
- OH&S committee toolbox presentation
- Create your own melodrama
- The cold and the beautiful poster
- Common colds need common sense, not antibiotics brochure
Occupational health & safety toolbox talk 2008
The toolbox talk provides occupational health and safety (OH&S) committees with some important common colds messages. This scripted toolbox talk will take about 5 minutes to present to OH&S committees. It has information about:
- when people with colds are infectious
- workplace common sense, and
- myth busting the use of antibiotics for the common cold.
This Common colds need common sense, not antibiotics presentation is for use in conjunction with the scripted toolbox talk.
You don’t need a medical background to present this toolbox talk.
This free OH&S committee toolbox talk is an initiative supported by the National Safety Council of Australia.
Create your own melodrama
Be a star in your own cartoon and send on to your friends (coming soon).
Poster
The cold and the beautiful
Display this bright, full colour poster in shared areas around the workplace.
Brochure
Common colds need common sense, not antibiotics
For distribution around the workplace. (Updated May 2008)
This brochure provides evidence-based and common sense information about preventing the spread of common colds and treating symptoms and the reason why antibiotics don’t work for common colds.
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Date published: 2008-08-04 00:00:00
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