Information

O3 Alert

Annual O3 Alert trend
Issuance number
EXCEL
Protective Actions
Protective Actions
Categories General Public Vehicle Drivers Relevant Agencies Businesses
Alert
(0.12ppm
or more)
  • Requests: No open burning
  • Refraining from outdoor activities and require less heavy exertion.
  • Recommendations: Use mass transit (especially, children, elderly citizens, patients with respiratory ailments and heart diseases) / Limit outdoor activities.
  • Recommendations: Drive less in the alert zone(Car-pooling)
  • Use mass transit
  • Restrain inessential use of vehicles.
  • Issue an air pollution alert.
  • Requests: National broadcasting and publicity
  • Analysis of changes in air pollution and review of weather monitoring data.
Warning
(0.3ppm
or more)
  • Requests: Restrict the use of incineration facilities
  • Avoid prolonged outdoor activities and heavy exertion.
  • Recommendation: Restrict outdoor classes.
  • Request: Limit driving in the warning zone.
  • Issue an air pollution warning.
  • Requests: Closer monitoring of air pollution and weather observation
  • Enhance the publicity of the issuance.
  • Recommendation: Reduce fuel consumption
Emergency
(0.5ppm
or more)
  • Requests: Suspend and restrict incineration facilities / No outdoor class.
  • Recommendations: Temporary closure of schools
  • No outdoor activities, especially the elderly, children, and patients with respiratory ailments and heart diseases.
  • Forbid driving vehicles in the emergency zone
  • Issue an air pollution emergency.
  • Requests: Closer monitoring of air pollution and weather observation
  • Enhance the publicity of the issuance.
  • Operation Reduction