All types of organisations can use our Smoking Policy template. It sets out how staff and management should deal with smoking in the workplace in light of the Health Act 2006. This Act effectively bans smoking at work.

About our Smoking Policy Template

Putting in place this smoking policy (and of course following it in practice) is a good step in the direction of:

ensuring that your business does not face prosecution for breach of the Health Act 2006, and
that your employees’ health does not suffer from passive smoking while at work.

The smoking policy is comprehensive and covers:

when and where you permit smoking in the workplace; and
restrictions on smoking in vehicles used for work.

Guide to this Smoking Policy template

You can get a feel for what the smoking policy covers by taking a look at the excerpt from the guide to the template below:

Smoking policy outline

This section sets out what the purpose of the policy is and the consequences of breaching it.

Smoking ban

This section sets out the meaning of the smoking ban at the workplace, in work vehicles and in private vehicles (when being used to carry passengers on work business). It is suggested in the wording of this section that smoking breaks should be confined to work break times (e.g. the lunch break). You can adapt the smoking policy if you are not so strict on this aspect.