To prepare for an influenza pandemic, the key financial institutions have established multiple business continuity strategies for dealing with staff absenteeism. They have also developed and tested workplace measures and immediate response procedures for managing staff with symptoms suggestive of avian influenza, and conducted staff awareness programmes. In addition, they have organisation-wide immediate response plans to handle various security situations such as bomb threats and explosions.

MAS has also issued an information paper on the sound practices observed during the thematic inspections to help institutions enhance their readiness in dealing with an avian influenza pandemic and security threats.