- Develop a smoke-free policy for your workplace - work towards a smoke-free site. Think about your organisations’ approach to e-cigarettes. If you are new to e-cigarettes, use the Public Health Wales position statement to get an overview of the health considerations. Further support to help you integrate e-cigarettes into a smoking policy is available from Action on Smoking and Health Wales (ASH Wales).
- Allow staff to attend smoking cessation support during working hours without loss of pay.
- Consider raising smoking as standard practice during return to work interviews following a period of sickness absence.
- Promote, participate and engage the workforce about smoking and tobacco related campaigns
- Stay up to date with changes across health and wellbeing by signing up for the Healthy Working Wales e-bulletin.
Healthy Working Wales can support employers develop their policy and approach to managing smoking. For more information you can email us at WorkplaceHealth@wales.nhs.uk with your queries and one of our advisers will contact you as soon as possible.