Voluntary Steps in Helping Prevent Ozone

Tips for Citizens: 10 Things You Can Do

• Share a ride to work or school.
• Avoid morning rush-hour traffic.
• Walk or ride a bicycle.
• Take your lunch to work or school.
• Combine errands into one trip.
• Avoid drive-through lanes.
• Postpone refueling until after 6 p.m.
• Don't top off your gas tank when refueling.
• Postpone using gas engines such as lawnmowers until after 6 p.m.
• Keep your vehicle properly tuned to keep exhaust levels low.

Tips for Business and Industry:
Small Steps, Big Solutions

• Shift work schedules to allow employees to avoid morning rush-hour traffic.
• Allow employees to work at home (telecommuting).
• Offer bus passes.
• For employees who rideshare or use public transportation, provide a guaranteed emergency ride home.
• Carpool to lunch and meetings.
• Schedule meetings that don't require driving (meet on site or make conference calls).
• Offer free drinks at your cafeteria to encourage employees to eat at work.
• Postpone fueling fleet vehicles until after 6 p.m.
• Postpone working with mowers, bulldozers, backhoes, tractors, and other two-cycle engine activities.
• Delay painting, degreasing, tank cleaning, ground maintenance, and road repair.
• Postpone routine flaring or venting of hydrocarbons.
• Postpone the loading and hauling of volatile organic compound (VOC).
• Postpone VOC-producing activities such as chemical treatment and catalyst preparation.
• Switch loads to fired heaters or boilers with low nitrogen oxide burners.