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The recent WHO report "The Role of the Occupational Health Nurse in Workplace Health Management" is indeed an interesting document. For instance, take a look at page 32, under the heading "Environmental Benefits". Hands up all of you out there, "....working independently or as part of a multiprofessional occupational health service who have been actively working towards the goal of managing environmental issues using principles and methods of such strategies as Cleaner Production, Eco- efficiency, Green Productivity, and Pollution Prevention..." I'm sure that governments and their agencies would want occupational health providers to become actively involved in a broader approach to maintaining and improving the health of 'the community'. But, being realistic [some might prefer to label it heretical] for a moment, haven't occupational health providers got their work cut out just dealing with the community at the workplace? Dennis M