Deal with smoking at work in a sensible manner
The regulations are clear: Every employee is entitled to a smoke-free work environment. Does your company still have to do something about this? Then we will gladly help you. But if you think that this is all that is involved in a sensible smoking policy, then you are wrong.
Smoking is a broad social issue, which can also result in inefficiency and tension on your work floor. Unless you implement a clear and decisive as well as human policy. That is why Securex organizes workshops, surveys and information sessions on smoking. And we also guide your employees in their struggle against smoking.
Workshops: Smoking legislation and smoking policy
Our psychosocial welfare prevention adviser will help your executives and the key figures who are in charge of your welfare policy with:
- Information concerning the legal framework and legislative goals;
- The steps required to draw up a stop smoking policy;
- The steps to introduce a smoking policy within your company.
This will help you introduce a smoking policy to your work floor, which enjoys a high level of support, and which complies with the legal requirements.
Survey: Smoking behaviour at work
Do you want to guide and help those employees that decide to stop smoking? Or introduce
a stop smoking policy in order to help as many employees as possible to get rid of their addiction? Then you will have to check first if it is worth the effort. If your employees are in favour of the idea and how many people smoke and are willing to stop. Otherwise, you run the risk of implementing an expensive but worthless policy.
Our survey looks into the smoking behaviour and desires and proposals of all your employees based on 35 targeted questions. It can be done in no time at all online and is guided by our psychosocial welfare prevention adviser.
The report with the results also comprises proposals for a sensible stop smoking policy, which has your employees' support.
Information sessions: Passive smoking and kicking the habit
Undoubtedly, the social discussion regarding smoking is also being waged in your company. Facts and fiction are often blurred and there are always personal conflicts ready to erupt.
Our information session will assure mutual understanding by listing the right facts and arguments. And to move the discussion away from individual cases. At any rate our psychosocial welfare prevention adviser will discuss:
- the legal framework and legislative goals;
- Background information concerning smoking;
- Arguments in favour of a sensible smoking policy;
- The medical aspects of active and passive smoking;
- Various possibilities for stopping to smoke;
- Potential detox symptoms.
Group guidance of people who choose to stop smoking
Nicotine patches will help smokers deal with the physical detox symptoms. But they will not make it easier to stop smoking at psychological level. This requires good guidance.
That is why our psycho-social welfare prevention adviser will regularly gather those employees who choose to stop smoking to exchange their experiences and background information. The eight sessions, spread out over a period of six months, and the supporting course materials will help your employees in their struggle. And the group dynamic will increase the success of your campaign tenfold.
Individual guidance of people who choose to stop smoking
Even those people who not like to share their experiences with others require some form of guidance in their effort to stop smoking. Which is why the Securex psycho-social welfare prevention adviser can schedule eight individual discussions, spread out over a period of six months.
During these individual sessions, we will discuss the same issues and detox symptoms as during the group sessions. The course is also the same. As is the success percentage.
