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and your brand with
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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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July 8, 2025
Mercury? Aluminum? What’s really in vaccines?

Health News:

  • Over 350,000 pounds of Oscar Meyer turkey bacon has been recalled due to Listeria risk. (NBC)
  • Measles has reached a record high since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. (CNN)
  • The CDC has ended its emergency designation and response for bird flu. (Bloomberg)
  • ER visits for tick bites are already nearing record levels this summer in the U.S. (ABC)
  • The candy industry, including the maker of M&Ms, is one of the last major holdouts pushing back against the HHS campaign to eliminate synthetic food dyes, though their hand may be forced by state-specific regulations. (NY Times)
  • Wyoming reported its first measles case in 15 years. (Yahoo)
  • Local health departments face rising workforce strains, with 40% of large local departments reporting job losses. (CIDRAP)
  • There have already been as many norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships this year than in all of 2024 combined. (CDC)
  • Major cuts from the federal budget could lead to longer wait times at local emergency rooms. (TIME)
  • Starbucks is exploring how to remove canola (a seed oil) from its U.S. menu. (Bloomberg)
  • Cases of campylobacter and Salmonella in England have hit their highest levels in a decade. (Food Safety)
  • Um…no, do not try the viral “coffee enema” making rounds on social media. (USA Today)

Mental Health & Substance Use News:

  • Many people are feeling high levels of stress from the news. (Science Alert)
  • For those impacted by the floods in Central Texas, local mental health supports are available for free. (NBC2)

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or need help, call 988 or message the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.

Best Questions:

What do we need to know about flu shots and thimerosal? Are they safe?

The government is likely going to recommend that Americans only get flu vaccines that don’t contain the ingredient called thimerosal. It’s a preservative that contains mercury, but it’s not actually super relevant – the majority of flu vaccines, including all of those recommended for kids, haven’t actually contained thimerosal for decades.

Breaking it down even further, there’s not any strong evidence that thimerosal is dangerous, but it does contain a type of mercury. Some mercury (like the kind in seafood) can be toxic, but the type used in this preservative is generally broken down easily by our bodies. There have also been some discredited theories about links to autism, though there is no evidence for that. Still, the U.S. voted to remove it from kids’ vaccines back in 2001, and it’s now only used in multi-dose vials, which aren’t common. Only large health centers tend to order these bulk vials, and the vast majority of doses given in the U.S. are single-use.

The good news is that there’s probably enough single-dose, thimerosal-free vaccine to get a flu shot to every American who wants one, even if this rule goes into effect. We don’t expect this will impact employers.

Sources: NPR, PBS

Do vaccines really contain aluminum? Is that safe?

Yes, some vaccines do contain aluminum, but it’s one of the most studied ingredients in vaccines, and there’s plenty of evidence that it’s safe and actually very helpful for mounting an immune response. It’s in the news because RFK Jr. has repeatedly cited aluminum as a cause for concern in vaccines or as the reason children have allergies, none of which are supported by the evidence.

Aluminum salts are used in some vaccines to encourage a more robust immune response and boost the effectiveness of the shot. In very large doses, aluminum can cause health issues, but the amount in vaccines is minuscule compared to what we breathe from dust or come into contact with in food - a single slice of American cheese has 10x the amount of aluminum than all the vaccines a baby has in their first 6 months.

There has been one small U.S. study that found a potential link between aluminum in vaccines and increased childhood asthma, but it was small and had limitations, and a much larger Danish study found no such result. There have been hundreds of studies proving the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccines, and they’re such an important standard of care to prevent infant deaths. Since they’re proven to save lives from much more dangerous things (think polio or smallpox), most pediatricians agree that one single study showing a potential link to asthma rates isn’t enough to justify delaying or skipping shots at this point.

Overall, the studies show that childhood vaccines, and the aluminum in many of them, are safe and effective. On top of that, they all go through clinical trials and then are continuously monitored by the CDC and FDA to watch for any issues.

Sources: NY Times, CDC

Best Listen:

If you have 12 minutes to listen, we love this conversation with a pediatrician about how he’s talking about vaccines with parents. We think there are great parallels here for how employers can discuss health issues with their teams, and some of the challenges with health communication in the modern age.

When it comes to vaccines, how are pediatricians restoring trust? : Consider This from NPR

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