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Posted By John Lewis
With the forthcoming smoking in the workplace legislation, does anyone know if there are any published figures on incidence of fires after an employer has banned smoking.
I am an ardent anti smoker, however if somebody wants to I think they should be allowed to if it affects no one else, e.g. in a smoke room. My concern is that a smoker will smoke anywhere he can, whether it is banned or not. Eventually he will start a fire because he hides in an out of the way area where rubbish and fluff has accumulated.
Some years ago I was told that American insurance companies reported an increase in fires at premises where smoking was banned, but I cannot find it on the web.
John
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Posted By John Lewis
Sorry guys, just preventing my thread being knocked off the top.
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Posted By fats van den raad
John
I do tend to agree with you that by putting an outright ban on smoking at work it will only be driven underground.
A company that I have done consultancy work for had some years ago made the decision to close down the "smoking" tea room and canteen fascilities. This was despite the fact that about 80% of the emplyees (non-smokers included) used these fascilities rather than the non-smoking fascilities for their breaks.
This company operated in an extremely high fire risk environment. Even so, sigarette butts and other evidence of underground smoking started to appear in plant areas where you REALLY wouldn't want people to smoke, such as behind solvent tanks etc.
The company re-instated the smoking fascilities and the problem dissapeared.
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Posted By Jerry Lucey
Smoking has been banned in all enclosed workplaces in Ireland, including pubs and restaurants for over a year and a half now. It might be worth contacting some of the Fire Authorities in Ireland to compare similar periods before and after the smoking ban.
From carrying out safety audits on premises here it is my experiance that there is widespread compliance with the smoking ban and I have witnessed very few incidents of personnel, visitors or the public being irresponsible as regards where they choose to smoke.
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