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A healthy workforce boosts productivity, lowers absenteeism, fosters a positive work environment, and most importantly, lowers the risk to your company's brand and reputation.

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Health Crisis Prevention + Management
For Modern Businesses

Whether you have a growing hospitality group or a major nationwide concept, it’s imperative that you protect your reputation and brand loyalty from illness, outbreaks, and other health crises.

Zero Hour Health’s team of advisors will help you prevent and manage your risk so your team can focus on growing the business.

Advisory from the most knowledgeable industry experts, 24/7/365.

Whether it’s navigating a foodborne illness outbreak, receiving guidance on best practices with your local health department, or general questions about your employees’ health, we’re here to keep you, your staff, and your business safe.
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Detecting and preventing illnesses, before they go public.

The best way to stop a crisis is to prevent it from becoming one in the first place. We’ll help you create a culture of safe working, detect problematic illnesses before they spread, and, most importantly, keep your business out of the news.
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Protecting the most important asset in your businesses: your brand.

An outbreak is one of the few crises that can permanently damage a brand. From local news, to the nightly news, to the trading floors, your reputation is the foundation of your business and its value. Protecting that asset is a top priority.
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Screening and assisting the hiring process for at-risk positions.

Whether you need to do physical examinations to ensure a prospective employee can do the job, or your industry regulations call for a battery of exams, we streamline this process and handle it for every step of the way. Save time, hire quicker, and protect yourself against workers' comp claims.
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A suite of services to support every aspect of your operations.

This is just a core breakdown of the main services we provide to our clients. We build highly customized solutions to support any need you have.

ZHH Pro

ZHH Pro is our industry-best advisory service. We tailor our support to solve your most pressing needs, whether you've got 6 locations or 600 locations. We can provide 24/7/365, high-level clinical support to keep your business running.
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Wellness Checks

The single best way to prevent illness in the workplace is to prevent sick employees from showing up in the first place. ZHH Wellness Checks are the best solution to identify and assess potentially sick employees.
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Vaccination Programs

From Flu to Hep A, vaccinations are a vital part of keeping your workforce healthy. We help businesses identify employee immunization history, track their records, and facilitate vaccinations both on-site and off.
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Exams & Regulatory Testing

Ensure that potential employees are fit to perform their roles safely and effectively using our industry-best pre-employment programs. We help employers maintain compliance with stringent industry standards and regulations without adding friction to the hiring process.
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October 15, 2024
Noro up 17% in the South ⤴️

Bird Flu News:

  • California is investigating five presumptive human cases of bird flu in dairy farm workers, in addition to the six already confirmed in the state. (Reuters)
  • CA has a total of 90 infected herds, all in the last 30 days, with Idaho being the only other state to report any new cases in the past month. (USDA)
  • An annual report from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board highlights mpox and bird flu as two pandemic threats. (CIDRAP)

Health News: 

  • The ready-to-eat meat recall is now over 10 million pounds, with hundreds of products affected at Walmart, Target, Publix, Trader Joe’s, HEB, and others.  (USA Today)
  • Norovirus is spiking across the U.S., with a massive hotspot in the South, where test positivity rates are above 17% - higher than any point last year. (Caitlin Rivers)
  • Britain is studying the use of Lilly’s weight loss drug to get people back to work. (Reuters)
  • 1 in 4 U.S. adults suspect they have undiagnosed ADHD. (U.S. News)
  • A second wave of medical issues may slam the NC region in Helene’s wake, driven by infections and diseases exacerbated by a lack of running water. (NC Health News)
  • Fewer than 1 in 5 large companies’ health plans cover weight loss drugs. (NBC)
  • About 130,000 cancer cases went undiagnosed during the first year of the pandemic. (STAT)
  • Zimbabwe reported its first two mpox cases in unrelated recent travelers. (CIDRAP)
  • Travelers arriving from Rwanda at JFK, O’Hare and Dulles airports will be screened for Marburg virus starting next week. (CBS)

Mental Health & Substance Use News:

  • More bystanders are using naloxone to save people from overdoses, up by 43% from 2020 to 2022. (U.S. News)
  • Some schools are using software that monitors student searches for indications of suicide or self-harm and alerts counselors. (NY Times) 

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or need help, call or text 988.

Best Questions:

We know that noro is surging in the South right now. What can we do when there’s noro in our community?

Norovirus is unbelievably contagious. People shed billions of particles in their vomit and stool when they’re sick, but it only takes 18 particles to infect someone else. Managers should speak to their teams, acknowledge that noro is going around, and emphasize the importance of staying home if you have GI symptoms -including if any household members have noro-like symptoms. Many employees don’t know that they should stay home for 3 days if their roommate or child is sick with norovirus, so that’s a great way to move the needle on breaking the cycle of illness when noro is spreading in your community. Explain that people are actually still contagious even after they feel better, so if you have noro-like symptoms, you need to stay home for a full two days after symptoms stop to make sure you’re not getting coworkers and guests sick. Noro can spread through food, so food handlers should be extra cautious. Even if employees feel fine and no one at home is sick, your team should step up their hand-washing while it’s going around the community. 

Source: CDC


Should we pull outdoor employees inside when there’s thunder, or just if there’s lightning?

Any thunder you hear means there is lightning nearby that’s close enough to strike you, too. About 300 people per year are struck by lightning in the U.S. Most survive, but 10%, or about 30 people per year, die and many more have permanent disabilities, so the consequences are serious. Florida in particular is considered the “lighting capital” of the U.S., with more than 2,000 lightning injuries over the past 50 years. It’s best practice to pull any employees indoors when you hear thunder or see lightning, and to wait 30 minutes after the last thunder is heard before returning outdoors. This is key - most lightning strikes happen either when people are caught unexpectedly in a storm or when they return outside too soon, so be sure to wait the full half hour before sending employees back outside. 

Sources: CDC, OSHA


Best Read: 

We’ve been really loving YLE’s series on what went wrong with public health communication about vaccines during the pandemic. This final installment is great and hard reading, and it’s so important, especially because we (both the ZHH team and you, an employer) are trusted messengers whose role in public health communication can’t be understated:

Your Local Epidemiologist - Health (Mis) Communication: Science, Policy, and Values

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