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These environmental considerations will inform the purchasing process for television systems and services.
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(Employee engagement toolkit) Virginia Mason’s award-winning environmental stewardship initiative, EnviroMason, is fully supported—from senior leadership to their team members. Sustainability is integrated into the everyday work along with patient safety and other organizational process improvement. The Virginia Mason Production System helps them identify and implement sustainability initiatives.
Type: Resources
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a coordinated approach to pest management that seeks to prevent unacceptable levels of pests by prioritizing the most-effective means with the least possible hazard to building occupants, workers and the environment. This is a strategy focusing on long-term prevention and suppression of pest problems through a combination of practices such as structural, cultural, mechanical, physical, and biological controls, with a least hazardous pesticide used only as a last resort. The strategy requires more skill and knowledge than conventional pest control and many… Read More
Type: Resources
Paul Spiegelman, chief culture officer for Stericycle, is using his current role as his learning lab for his theory that employee engagement is a key tactic for business success, regardless of industry, geography or company size. If employees are treated in a way that enhances their empowerment and personal growth, then it follows that people will be more productive, work harder and be happier because they are engaged and motivated. This growth starts with team members and a focus on creating a collaborative and trusting work. That engagement should lead to patient loyalty, and in turn drive… Read More
Type: Resources
To become a more sustainable organization, Spectrum Health hired a sustainability coordinator to address recycling. Spectrum Health’s goal was to reduce its overall waste stream by 30 percent by focusing on regulated medical waste reduction and recycling efforts.
Type: Resources
Seattle Children's believes that green buildings are healthier environments for their occupants, and building green is integral to the core mission of providing top-quality healthcare. Through thoughtful, sustainable facility master planning, Seattle Children's future development will consider habitat, energy and water, which are essential to community design and reducing demand on the local infrastructure. These choices will contribute to a sustainable urban campus and, by extension, positively affect the community around it.
Type: Resources
Seattle Children’s Hospital has promoted onsite food producing vegetable gardens for a couple of reasons. The first is to connect patients and families to healthy foods and let children experience harvesting, cooking and eating local organic produce. The second is to test the capacity for supplying produce to kitchen operations.
In the teaching garden, nutritionists hold classes on growing vegetables and harvesting them. This series of classes allows children and families to see the progress of the garden over the summer. The production garden is a raised garden that was built on an old… Read More
Type: Resources
Seattle Children’s has a large campus with a huge variety of plant and tree specimens. When the 2013 Building Hope was planned, one wing of the top floor was devoted to garden spaces. The plan includes a healing garden space for cancer patients and their families as the Cancer Care unit is adjacent to the space. Next to the healing garden is a large rooftop garden to mitigate storm water runoff. The plantings are native or drought tolerant, and there are design elements like raw wood benches that are typical to this geographical area.
Type: Resources
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for removing mercury‐containing equipment where safe, effective, mercury‐ free alternatives exist and ensuring the safe handling of remaining mercury‐containing chemicals and equipment.
Type: Resources
(Transportation toolkit) Employee commute surveys and data collection may also be administered by state, regional, and municipal transit authorities, non-profit organizations, and business partners. These are acceptable sources for reporting and tracking employee single-occupancy vehicles and vehicle-miles-traveled rates.
Type: Resources
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