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H1N1 Lessons Learned/ Fall Forecast

June 30, 2009 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EDT

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Today’s presenters:

Raelene Wong Director of Business Continuity Applied Materials Andrew Fernandes Global Business Continuity and Resiliency Program (BCRP) Program Management Office Dell Inc.

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Agenda

  • Pandemic Planning Background
  • Response to H1N1 Escalation
  • Lessons Learned
  • What to Expect
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  • Initial planning began in the fall of 2005
  • Leadership established by BCP, EHS and Security
  • Pandemic Planning Task Force
  • Management Team
  • Executive Steering Committee
  • Global BCP Coordinators selected as pandemic managers

Pandemic Preparedness Planning

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Pandemic Preparedness Planning

  • Cross-functional task force with external vendor support created an

Applied Materials Pandemic Preparedness Plan consisting of: – General Overview – Standards – Action Tables – Information Sheets

  • Employee “awareness” messages
  • “Chair drops” with key messages

– Boxes of tissues – Waterless hand sanitizers – Desk wipes

  • Website

– General information – BCP Coordinators

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Applied Materials Pandemic Planning

  • Policy Review

– Payroll / Benefits – ExPat Services – Legal – Finance – Travel

  • Training

– Training completed for all Global BCP Coordinators – Utilized existing BCP structure – BIA used to validate critical business processes – Web-based awareness training – Promoted “Healthy Workforce” by encouraging improved personal hygiene

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Stockpiling of Supplies

  • Masks

– Surgical – N95 – 5 Regional Warehouses

  • Gloves & Gowns
  • Waterless Hand Sanitizing Units
  • Disinfecting Wipes
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Exercises

  • Conducted for all organizations –

functional or full scale depending upon needs. – Executives – Product Business Groups – Regions – Support Organizations

  • Scenarios included

– Global pandemic video – Workforce reduction of 40% – Loss of supplier/customer base – Logistics issues

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Response to H1N1 Escalation – What was done

  • Utilized Pandemic Management Team as

Crisis Management Team. Operational hours 4am-10pm.

  • Initiated “all employee” and “manager”

messages from Executive Level.

  • Fully activated CRT/BRT Teams in

Austin, Texas and Santa Clara, CA. (In early days, California and Texas were the “hot spots”) – Formalized entry screening process for both Austin and SCLA. – Developed “potential” case process.

  • Coordinated with Global HR for re-review
  • f policies.

“NOT SICK” CRITERIA

1) My temperature is less than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

AND

2) I have none of the following symptoms:

  • Cough
  • Sore throat
  • Runny nose or nasal congestion
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Response to H1N1 Escalation – What was done

  • Facilitated multiple

briefings/debriefings with regional BCP Coordinators.

  • Reviewed remote work band

width capabilities, hardware and resource needs.

  • Coordinated with logistics to

distribute surgical masks to all sites from Regional Warehouses along with instructions for usage/disposal.

  • Continually updated pandemic

website.

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Response to H1N1 Escalation

What worked well:

  • Previous planning efforts – basic plans, processes, information sheets and

posters available immediately. Pandemic exercises conducted globally.

  • Coordination with BCP organizations globally.
  • Employee messages – provided information without raising fear.
  • Pandemic Website and link from internal company website.
  • Distribution of supplies within region to individual sites.
  • Health Services/EHS involvement with entry screening process and case

tracking process.

  • Timely and reliable information sources.
  • Automated notification system.
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Response to H1N1 Escalation

Recommended changes:

  • Details, details, details….
  • Periodic update messages to all employees with status until situation is

deemed stabilized by WHO.

  • Additional guidance about travel.
  • Formalize the Pandemic Management Team into a Crisis Management

Team.

  • Modify existing plans to include both severity (ability to cause significant

illness and death) and impact (social and business disruption).

  • Utilize “passive” screening procedures as needed.
  • Develop a more formalized process for tracking field employees.
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What should we expect?

  • The mutating pandemic influenza virus circulating around the world for the

next 9-18 months.

  • Be prepared for “waves” of pandemic outbreaks.

– History of flu outbreaks suggests that the worst may still be ahead. The three major flu epidemics of the 20th century—1918, 1957 and 1968— all started with an initial assault that quickly subsided, only for the disease to later resurge in a more virulent and deadly form. – Southern Hemisphere for next 3-5 months – Northern Hemisphere starting in September

  • Unknown severity – may vary widely community to community.
  • Brace for the impact

– Government interventions (school, public office closures) – Social disruptions (transportation, food service, utility disruptions) – Business disruptions (limited business activities, shutdowns, supply chain disruptions)

  • Don’t forget about H5N1 (Avian Influenza)
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What should we do now?

“The virus may have given us a grace period, but we do not know how long this grace period will last. No one can say whether this is just the calm before the storm.” – World Health Organization Director General, Margaret Chan. 1. Make sure your plans are complete. 2. Ensure key staff are trained. 3. Brief Executive Management – AGAIN. 4. Ensure “Work from Home” works. 5. Test your entry screening processes. 6. Review HR policies – AGAIN. 7. Purchase PPE, entry screening and cleaning/sanitizing supplies NOW.

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Talking Points

  • Background – Swine Flu /H1NI
  • Initial Lessons Learned – Phase 3 to 5

– Initial response to H1N1 ? Did it unfold as expected? – What changes did we make to our plans? – How did we handle the relationship with HR? – Source of reliable information ? – How did you keep employees informed?

  • Shifting of Gears – Phase 6

– Looking Ahead & Next Steps

15 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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Pre-Planning Efforts

Avian Flu Kick Started the process in 2005 ! Management Support – Executive sponsorship – Formation of Global Crisis Management Team Policy – Guidelines if pandemic escalation ramps up from Stage 3 upward to Stage 6 Communications – Intranet Site for internal messaging – Creation of Site Crisis Management Teams Tools – Procurement of masks, gloves hand wash sanitizers, thermal scanners /global population coverage

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Flu To Pandemic!

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Start Date Cases reported Countries affected World wide reported deaths 4/24 < 100 2 – USA, Mexico None 4/26 < 100 2 – USA, Mexico USA, Mexico 4/29 < 200 9 2 4/30 < 200 11 2 5/2 < 1000 15 3 5/6 < 1500 23 3 5/9 < 3000 29 3 5/11 4500-5000 29 4 5/17 8000+ 40 74 5/27 14,000 48 95 6/11 W.H.O. LEVEL 6 ALERT 6/26 59,814 55 264 6/29 70,893 55+ 311

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LESSONS LEARNED PHASE 3-5

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Summary – Stage 3 To 5

  • Proactive and informative
  • Keeping employees calm is critical
  • Global HR guidelines is critical
  • Continue Pandemic planning for high risk

sites

  • More robust action plan from an HR and

employee support perspective

  • Ongoing Checklists/Toolkits/FAQs

required

  • Mexico office; on 4/27 made the

recommendation to employees to Telework; employees returned 5/6

  • Corporate offices on alert
  • Crafted global communications including

emails and blog

  • Created proactive plans as gaps were

determined for priority locations

  • Started April 24 2009
  • Mexico impacted by a new strain of

the flu (‘swine flu’)

  • Additional ‘clusters’ of cases globally
  • Tracked instances as well as media

updates

  • Opened up HR TT queue to capture

‘reported illnesses’ (What/When) Impact (Who/Where) KEY Lessons Learned KEY Recommendations

Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Lessons Learned….Level 3-5

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 21

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Plan Adjustment Required !

One major disconnect – life carried on as normal, as W.H.O. raised it level

  • f alertness !

Plan Adjustments Plan Adjustments Creation of Global sub task team – HR, EHS, Security, Facility, Legal, Corporate Communications to deal with the following tasks – Communications : Employees – Communications : Crisis Management Teams/role and responsibilities – Tool Creations : Manager Tool Kits /FAQ – Human Resources : Creation of Global Compensation and Benefits Guidelines to deal with mass absenteeism – Roll out of C&B guidelines globally : adjustment based on each country’s laws and regulations – Working with impacted countries and adjusting global policies based

  • n each countries regulations

– Validating internal capabilities to support ‘global’ assumptions.

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 22 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Key Success Factors

  • HR

– Working with Legal to have global Compensation & Benefit policy in place – Focus on assessment and executable plan elements from an employee support perspective (Emergency leave compensation, hardship grant, hardship advances, emergency leave) – Finalize strategy for logging incidents and for resolution / shut down of current reporting process

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 23 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Key Success Factors

  • Communications

– Activation of employee hotlines for impacted countries. – Activation of automated team notification for crisis management meetings – Development of ‘on the fly’ intranet messaging, employee blog, employee FAQ, Managers FAQ, Crisis management FAQ for impacted locations in affected countries – Proactive approval of advance employee and manager communication for Level 6

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 24 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Key Success Factors

  • Support Functions Collaboration

Global Facilities/EHS/Security – Worked together to complete detailed procedures/process if a case is identified at a Dell site or if site shut down is required. – Validated global supplies at various locations and provided strategy for current situation for each impacted country if escalation was required – Provided recommendation on future deployment and end of life products – Intelligence monitoring of information – various sources used by all thru groups

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 25 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Key Success Factors

  • Business Redirection

– Tie in general BCRP state of readiness for each identified site in impacted countries /high risk – Key Lines of Business identifies gaps and test work from home strategy ‘en masse’

  • IT

– Validate dragnet and citrix capacity regionally – Test IT redirection for critical business groups – Test work from home strategy ‘en masse’

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 26 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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NEXT STEPS LEVEL 6…AND AHEAD

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What Next….

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 28 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Level 6 Continued Action..

Be prepared for possible scenarios unfolding

  • 1. Partial shutdown
  • 2. Total shutdown

Preparation Action

  • Continue to review C&B guidelines to ensure accuracy and validity
  • Proactive FAQ/toolkits for employees & managers to be reviewed

frequently

  • Continue to test work from home /remote work capability

DELL CONFIDENTIAL 29 Talking points expressed are based on the individual’s experience in executing the H1N1 plan

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Questions?

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Thank You

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