Employee Education, Notification and Participation
- Assign Ozone Action Program (OAC) Coordinator(s)
- Promote employee education/awareness of ozone issue and helpful individual actions (e.g. internal newsletters, seminars, flyers, etc.)
- Employee alerts (e-mail, network boot up message, intercom, bulletin board, flags, etc.)
- Incentives for participating employees (e.g. raffle prizes, reserved parking, casual dress, meals/drinks, flex time)
Operations and Maintenance Activities
- Postpone maintenance and landscaping activities which use small engines
- Postpone vehicle fleet refueling until the evening
- Use fleet vehicles to attend lunch and meetings
- Employ building energy conservation measures
- Restrict indoor and outdoor paint jobs on alert days
- Switch to low VOC solvents and architectural coatings
- Change work schedules to mitigate commute traffic jams
Commuter Actions
- Encourage commute alternatives for employees
- rideshare - carpool/vanpool
- telecommute/work at home
- public transportation
- walk/bike
- flexible work hours
- Establish shuttles for groups of employees going between sites or to/from transit stations
- Encourage (incentives) employees not to travel by auto at lunch time
- subsidize or provide lunches
- encourage brown bag lunches or ordering in
- provide shuttle service to common dining areas
- Parking management - preferences for rideshare vehicles
For more information about how you or your business can become an Ozone Action Program participant, please contact Jean Kelly at 225-219-3966 or the Capital Region Planning Commission, (225)383-5203; or at the Louisiana DEQ, (225)765-0169. You may also email deqassistance@LA.GOV, or call RIDESHARE at (225)344-RIDE (7433).