In the UK, smoke-free legislation provides that most workplaces must be smoke free.
Employers should review their policies and practices on a regular basis, to ensure that they are complying with the legislation, including for example in relation to their vehicles and employees who work remotely.
Wales and Northern Ireland have now joined Scotland and the Republic of Ireland in implementing smoking bans in workplaces and...
Pub workers in Ireland are healthier as a result of a ban on smoking in workplaces, imposed in 2004, research...
Smokers take an average of eight days’ more sick leave a year than their non-smoking colleagues, research published in the...
Employers have been urged to get their act together and introduce smoking bans into their shops, factories, offices, restaurants and...
TVÂ shopping channel QVCÂ has launched an employee wellbeing programme, Wellbeing@Work, to provide staff with information on improving their personal...
Government departments in Whitehall have been ‘named and shamed’ by Westminster Council because of smoking staff filling the streets with...
Personnel Today has teamed up with wellbeing consultancy Nuffield Proactive Health to give readers the chance to turn their company...
If you or any of your team are one of the UK’s 12 million adults who smoke, did you know...
Staff at Warwickshire County Council who want to quit smoking are being offered help and advice from other staff members, some...
Pub chain Greene King has launched a campaign to encourage its 16,000 workers to give up smoking in preparation for...
Thousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England. The...
Public health minister Caroline Flint has urged businesses to start preparations now for the introduction of the ban on smoking in...
Bar staff in Scotland are now exposed to 86% less smoke following the introduction of the smoking ban in March 2005,...
A hotel group has become the first hospitality employer in England to ban smoking on its premises.Shire Hotels has vetoed...
When the Health Act 2006 comes into force next summer, it will outlaw smoking in virtually all indoor public places...
