Consultancy, training and employee support programmes to ensure you stay ahead
Visit my smoking cessation website: www.penelopewalford.com or call on
01983 875051
Why workplace smoking consultancy?
Although there is no legal responsibility on the employer to help employees stop smoking, there are significant benefits to your organisation as a result of funding a smoking cessation programme for your workforce:
- Around 2.2 million people, approximately 8 percent of the workforce, across Great Britain currently work in places with no restrictions on smoking at all
- In England and Wales an estimated
34 million working days are lost each year through smoking-related diseases
- Research in 2000 found that non-smoking men exposed to passive smoking at work for more than a year were twice as likely to take time off sick as those in smoke-free workplaces
- An average smoker, smoking six cigarettes each working day, with each cigarette taking about ten minutes to smoke, will spend 5 hours of the working week smoking
Benefits to Employers
The benefits to the employer include less absenteeism, improved productivity and lower costs. Smart companies can reap the benefits of a smoke-free environment by instituting their own smoking ban and providing staff with supportive cessation schemes.