Employee Education, Notification and Participation

• Assign Ozone Action Program (OAC) Coordinator(s)
• Promote employee/student education/awareness of ozone issue and helpful individual actions
  • Conferences, seminars, workshops
  • Establish teams, task forces or committees
  • Posters/flyers/handouts
  • Element in student/new employee orientation
• Employee/student alerts (e-mail, network boot up message, intercom, bulletin board, flags, etc.)
• Incentives for participating employees/students (e.g. raffle prizes, reserved parking, meals/drinks, certificates, caps/T-shirts)

Operations and Maintenance Activities

• Postpone maintenance activities which use small engines
• Postpone fleet refueling until the evening
• Use fleet vehicles to attend lunch and meetings
• Use alternate fuel (low emission) vehicles
• Restrict indoor and outdoor paint jobs on alert days
• Switch to low VOC solvents and architectural coatings
• Set up Task Force or TQM committee to focus on reduction of ozone-forming emissions

Commuter Actions

• Encourage commute alternatives for employees/students
  • rideshare - carpool/vanpool
  • telecommute/work at home
  • public transportation
  • walk/bike
  • flexible work hours
• Establish shuttles for groups of employees/students going between sites or to/from transit stations
• Encourage (incentives) employees/students 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 DEQ, 225-219-3966 or the Capital Region Planning Commission, (225)383-5203.  You may also email deqassistance@LA.GOV, or call RIDESHARE at (225)344-RIDE (7433).