The Workplace Super-bug: Risks, Precautions and Solutions

Littler Mendelson's Workplace Safety Practice Group invites you to join us for a focused webinar to learn all about this "superbug" employers are hearing about in the news. MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is making headlines everywhere and employers need the facts from their trusted experts in order to assess their risk and respond appropriately. This complimentary, 90-minute webinar will provide you with valuable insight into contamination risks in the workplace, precautions that employers should take to maintain a safe work environment, and what to do when an employee self discloses that he or she has MRSA.

Topics covered at this seminar will include among others:

• What is MRSA Staph Infection and how to recognize it?
• How is it spread and how it can be prevented?
• What is the treatment -- including how long will an employee potentially be out of work and/or contagious?
• How to respond when a employee self-discloses his/her infection?
• Practical tips for handling contagious employees and return to work issues.
• What other laws come into play when an employee self-discloses that he or she has a MRSA infection?

Littler has an excellent Workplace Safety Practice Group consisting of attorneys in nearly every Littler office across the nation. Our Workplace Safety attorneys are not only experienced in representing clients in litigation matters before state and federal OSH agencies, performing worksite OSH audits and reviewing/creating OSH programs for clients, they are also experts in Mine Safety and Health, drug testing, workplace violence, and all other issues relating to workplace safety. Littler also has on staff a non-lawyer OSHA expert with an extensive background both as a private consultant and an industrial hygienist for Cal-OSHA, and is available to provide excellent consultative services in any occupational safety or health related matter that does not require legal advice.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
10:00 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
12:00 p.m. (Central Standard Time)
1:00 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

If you are unable to attend this informative and timely webinar but would like more information on Littler's Workplace Safety Practice Group, please contact the group's chair: Steve McCown at smccown@littler.com (214.880.8101).