Hi all!
The organization I work with, Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center in western Washington state, is working to develop our protocols for managing staff and program participant safety during wildfire smoke/poor air quality events.
I'm wondering if any of you have air quality-related policies & procedures that you might be open to sharing or discussing with me- particular thresholds for when you cancel programs, for example?
Unfortunately for many of us on the west coast, "smoke season" has become a routine issue, so perhaps this can be a thread where folks share resources for everyone to reference!
Shout out to Purple Air (
https://www.purpleair.com/), a community-driven air quality tool we use here. We have a sensor on site that provides important hyper-local data, since the government
Air Quality Index (AQI) | AirNow.gov readings aren't as granular and our site is in a valley that often has different readings from sensors just up the hill.
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