Climate Change Education:
Educate Workers
Decrease your greenhouse gas emissions (carbon footprint)
- Leave your car at home and bike, walk, or take public transportation to work. Employees can also coordinate a carpool network within their workplace to decrease the number of cars on the road. While decreasing your carbon footprint, you can cut traffic injuries as well as decrease air pollution and associated respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. By increasing personal physical activities, you can lower overall mortality risks (WHO, 2008).
Be aware of heat advisories
- When temperatures are elevated, individuals are at a higher risk for heat related complications, such as asthma exacerbation and heat stress. Employees should be aware of their limitations.
Implement Environmentally Preferable Purchasing and Recycling Programs
- Opt for products or services that have a lesser effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose. Learn more about environmentally preferable purchasing.
- Employees can work with their waste management team to implement recycling programs for their workplace.
