Private or public organizations can play a key role in a large-scale public health emergency by assisting public health in the distribution and/or dispensing of medical countermeasures, such as antibiotics to employees, employee families, contract staff, clients, and/or the general public.
The Strategic National Stockpile has provided a fact sheet which provides information about liability issues that are a common concern that employers have expressed when asked to distribute or dispense medical countermeasures on behalf of public health.