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Posted By Mervyn Rodgers
I work for a large Primary Care Trust and we have a no smoking policy we states as per current legislation "No Smoking on the Premises". Our problem lies with our community staff visiting peoples homes, whilst we can ask people not to smoke while staff are present it is not feasible to ask for them not to smoke 1 to 2hrs before the visit. Anybody else got this problem and if so what control measure have you applied?
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Posted By GARRY WIZZ
Well what a pickle.
No problems with the no smoking. When employees visit then the customers can refrain from a fag for the duration, and rightly so.
As for the idea of implimenting controls that prevent the customer smoking 2 hours before the visit of your employees is,
Waste of time, normal over the top reaction. The high risk dangers to health do not exist.
More chance of being killed driving to the appointment.Hence focusing on real threats far more constructive.
Garry
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Posted By J Knight
Hi Mervyn,
We have this problem as well, and Garry, the issue isn't about the reality of the risk, its mainly about how our workers perceive it and how we manage that.
We feel that the only way to get any reasonable compliance from service users is to make sure that the request (for such it is) is made clear at the time of contracting. So our contract letters to people now ask them to make a smoke free room available, and if possible for this room to have been smoke free for a period prior to the appointment. We do say that this is a condition of care, and we also tell our carers that they can walk away if people insist on smoking in front of them.
However, we haven't really had many problems with 'enforcing' this, as many people do leave all or part of their house smoke free anyway; it seems that a lot of house-proud people smoke in the garden and won't allow smoke in the house. The die-hards with smoke filled yellow walled houses mostly seem to have died off some time ago.
We also find that many of our carers are tolerant, and as long as they feel that we are giving them an option, they will opt to deliver care where rooms are smoky,
John
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Another non-starter. For the heavy smoker with mobility problems in a flat etc., all the internal doors are usually open for ease of access and the whole house is smoke filled.
Particularly in the winter months there is little chance of a window being opened.
Similarly, to ask a heavy smoker to refrain from smoking for more than half an hour would be an impossibility for some
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Posted By Mervyn Rodgers
Thank you for your responses and example policies to those who sent them.
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