Smoking Policy

[Northeastfarmer]

One of my guys smokes inside, but the the thing is he's stood over the top of a welder all day so no real difference if he smokes outside or in. The thing that pisses me off is him drinking 8-10 tins of diet coke everyday constantly running to the loo.

Wouldn’t want to be his insides!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Probably undiagnosed / untreated Type 2 diabetic......

Maybe, allthough he did say Diet Coke, if it was the full sugar stuff I’d say if he didn’t allready have it, he soon would.

 

[holywell farmer]

You can smoke on building sites but some have zero tolerance policy

 

[David.]

Had a tractor that had been heavily smoked in, about 20 yrs ago.
There is still a smell in the cab roof to this day.
At the end of the day, you do not own your employees, but It makes sense to forbid smoking in buildings and vehicles.
Parents always used to say to us kids if you want to smoke do it openly, do not hide round the buildings and set the place on fire.

 

[Netherfield]

https://www.gov.uk/smoking-at-work-the-law

My late uncle worked at a garden centre locally, it was declared a smoke free zone anywhere on the premises, at break times there would be six or so staff sat on the church wall opposite the place having a fag, then someone from the church complained about fag ends littered outside, so the staff moved down the road some way and threw them in the field below the church instead.

 

[Bury the Trash]

So as a pipe and the occasional cigar smoking ploughman, my employment opportunities seem to be looking a bit peaky

 

[holywell farmer]

So as a pipe and the occasional cigar smoking ploughman, my employment opportunities seem to be looking a bit peaky

Try chewing tobacco

 

[Bald Rick]

Try chewing tobacco

Skol Bandits. Guaranteed mouth cancer.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Try chewing tobacco

Or Gum.

 

[Plain steer]

As an employer of a number of staff, some of who smoke, I was wondering what smoking policies you adopt around the farm seeing as it’s an addictive habit.
We operate a blanket “no tolerance” in machines and buildings under the threat of dismissal but allow smoking in open areas. Fair?

I don’t smoke but don’t be so miserable and let them have a fag where ever they want as long as there doing there work I have no promblem with it

 

[Bury the Trash]

Try chewing tobacco

yeah,could do, or Snuff …..

 

[AndrewB]

Only casual potato grading staff smoke here always on their break outside, they seem to live on fags and red bull.

Had a tractor driver that retired a few years ago he was a heavy smoker but only in his own tractor and none of the shared machines, about 25 a day for 40 years.

 

[Cowabunga]

A friend bought an used Range Rover Sport that stank of the previous owners cigarettes. It cost the dealer a new headlining and carpets plus another £1500 money back to persuade him to keep it.

While i have a strict no smoking policy and cant stand the stink myself, it is sometimes difficult to enforce. For instance my brother in law sometimes helps with tractor driving and it’s not worth quarrelling with him about it, because he’s doing me a favour and he’s my wife’s brother. I ask him as seldom as possible though.

 

[DRC]

I'm a smoker and I have probably smoked inside one of our machines maybe once or twice In ten years (I'm 27 now). Would never let anyone smoke in a cab and I never would myself again. If they are that addicted to smoking that they can't go an hour or two without one and have to constantly have one on the go then wouldn't employ them, no one needs to smoke that much.

Always wondered what your avatar pic was. Your lungs

 

[ollie989898]

It's a minging habit. I would ban it on the premises, and wtf gives people the right to throw fag butts around all over the place? Filthy feks.

 

[Ley253]

How long would that last for? Surely a damn good thrashing with some air freshener and or leaving in the shed with windows open and it would go.

In bad cases, it will last for ever!Several trade in cars, ex stinker owners were traded, as found to be impossible to clean.

 

[Grassman247]

Banned at my place, they have an hour for breakfast and hour and a half for lunch so if they wish to smoke then they can do it then.

 

[ajd132]

Always wondered what your avatar pic was. Your lungs

I havnt actually smoked since New Year's Eve!

 

[DRC]

I havnt actually smoked since New Year's Eve!

That’s good news. I smoked in my teens , but thankfully managed to pack it in.

 

[ajd132]

That’s good news. I smoked in my teens , but thankfully managed to pack it in.

To be fair I was never a chain smoker anyway. Maybe ten a day at most excluding pub and nights out