Tips for Businesses

Here's how to get involved!

• Designate a workplace Clean Air Coordinator (CAC) for the Care About Clean Air campaign and subscribe to the free E mail or Fax Notification System.
• Receive free clean air promotional materials from the American Lung Association. This will make announcements easy and awareness certain within your organization.
• In the late afternoon, your workplace CAC will receive the next day's forecast if it's predicted to be a Red or Orange Air Quality Day, and will be encouraged to notify colleagues and co-workers by:
  • displaying Care About Clean Air announcement posters or signs
  • broadcasting an internal E-mail or voice mail message
  • making a P.A. system announcement posting a notice on the company's
  electronic (or actual) bulletin boards
  • calling your workplace to action in a way best suited to it

You can also get involved by providing incentives for cleaning the air or by reducing the emissions associated with your business every day, not just on red or orange days.

Go the Extra Mile!

If your employer is interested in promoting the benefits of ridesharing, you can also designate an Employee Transportation Coordinator (ETC) or have your CAC also serve as your ETC. ETCs work directly with RideFinders or Citizens for Modern Transit to promote ridesharing to their employees. RideFinders provides all of the marketing materials and support necessary. ETCs have the opportunity to have a RideFinders representative come onsite to host a Clean Air Fair to help co-workers form vanpools or carpools. Registered carpoolers and vanpoolers can take advantage of RideFinders free Guaranteed Ride Home Program and other great benefits.

Citizens for Modern Transit administers the Guaranteed Ride Home Program for transit and bicycle commuters in the St. Louis region. They will also help to register employees at your worksite through Transit fairs, the Taste of Transit program, an e-newsletter and promotional events geared towards transit and bicycle commuters. For more information, please visit www.cmt-stl.org.

Offer flex-time and telecommuting options to your employees whose jobs are suited to such a set up. Flex-time arrangements allow employees to change the starting and ending times of their workday to avoid idling in rush hour traffic congestion, while maintaining the same total work hours for the week. Telecommuting is a mobile work option that allows employees to be productive outside the traditional office setting, and can eliminate the work commute one or more days a week. To learn more on these alternatives, visit www.suitecommute.com.

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Spread the Word!

One of the most effective ways businesses can help is also the easiest. Informing your employees about air quality is a no-cost way to improve regional air quality. Every time you inform an employee, customer, colleague or friend about Orange or Red air quality days and what we can all do to improve air quality, you help to empower people with the information they need to make a difference. For more information contact the American Lung Association at 1-800-LUNG-USA or RideFinders at www.ridefinders.org or 1-800-VIP-RIDE.

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