Workplace pollution and environment​

 

Has the European Union's greening policy made room for listening to the issues of its staff who, it is important to stress, are for the most part sensitive to environmental issues ? It is necessary for these measured not to be based solely on pure and simple restrictions - aimed at indicators - but instead to represent open up avenues to beging looking at life at work differently while respecting the physical and mental well-being of staff.

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For U4U, it is high time to put the environmental dimension at the heart of the criteria in:

• The choice of location for buildings, crèches and nurseries and European schools. Provide outdoor and indoor green spaces for all future buildings,

• The design of workspaces,

• The selection of building materials,

• The energy performance of buildings,

• Mobility between buildings,

• Aim for the “sustainable canteen” label for our collective catering, including in crèches. user-friendly ;

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It is also about designing a strategy of mobility:

• By imagining innovative incentives for staff to travel differently

• By providing free parking lots and drop-off parking lots near schools

• By making bicycles available all day, including to get home

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Did you know : U4U is committed to the environment and the climate.  It also supports our colleagues from EUstaff4Climate who propose substantiated and concrete measures based on their professional experience. U4U's monthly review , GRASPE, has published a series texts, and devoted two special issues to them (reviews No. 36 “Special Climate and Ecological Emergency”, and N°38 "Leading by example: proposals for reducing  the Commission's footprint") discussed at conferences.