Public Health Promoting Smoke-Free Policies in the Workplace

Published on: 2015/02/02 - in Featured News

A workplace guide and signage has been created by KFL&A Public Health, designed to help businesses protect their employees and customers from second-hand smoke at building entrances and on outdoor properties.

Frontenac and Lennox and Addington county businesses are set to receive a free guide and signage aimed to support their efforts to implement a smoke-free policy. Increasing workplace smoke-free spaces will additionally be implemented as part of a provincial wide strategy designed to protect people from second-hand smoke and help smokers to quit.

Businesses can show they care about the health of the community and environment by ensuring entrances and their outdoor properties are free of second-hand smoke. Research has shown that there is no safe level of second-hand smoke exposure, even in the smallest amounts.

“The majority of residents in the KFL&A area strongly support local by-laws that would make various outdoor places smoke-free,” said Dave McWilliam.  He is manager, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, at the Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Public Health.

Businesses interested in receiving a free copy of the workplace guide and signage, or who would like more information about ways to support employees in quitting smoking, contact KFL&A Public Health’s Tobacco Information Line at 613-549-1232 or 1-800- 267-7875, ext. 1333.

The agency is also offering the chance to win a $100.00 VISA gift card, simply by filling out the workplace-guide-evaluation survey by March 31, 2015.


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