There is no excuse for inaction or ignorance on air pollution

The British Safety Council, alarmed by new research, welcomes the #AirWeShare campaign in calling for urgent action on protecting outdoor workers from air pollution.

The site engineer at a construction site had air pollution exposure levels six times higher than that of the office worker.

Of all the trial participants, the lorry driver had the highest overall exposure.

Air pollution on the tube is high. The deeper lines are much more polluted than those closer to the surface, with overground lines being ten times cleaner.

Source: Hubbub trial monitoring air pollution exposure of people working or living in London

These are the top-line findings of the trial conducted by the environmental charity Hubbub in cooperation with King’s College London and The Times. The trial was set up to examine how air pollution affects people living and working in London and what can be done to minimise people’s exposure. There were ten participants with varying lifestyles and occupations who used portable monitors that tracked their air pollution exposure levels for a week. Among them were outdoor workers, i.e. an HGV driver, a construction site engineer and a construction worker.

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