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Employers Toolkit
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Secondhand Smoke in the Headlines
"The debate is over. The science is clear. Secondhand smoke is not a mere annoyance. It is a serious health hazard."
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Simple Steps toward Tobacco-Free:
Proven Strategies to Improve Health and Productivity in the Workplace
Begin the discussion in your community:Invite businesses to learn ways to fight the health and economic toll of tobacco use. Dr. Steven Schroeder, international expert on the health impacts of smoking, will discuss nicotine addiction and cost-effective treatments. Businesses will then describe how they invest in employee health and productivity by helping tobacco-users quit.
- Mike Brennan, Wellness Program Manager, The Boeing Company
- Beth Shepard, Health Promotion Specialist, Washington Mutual, Inc.
- and Varon Blackburn, Human Resources Manager, McCain Foods Limited
The webconference,
Top tools to insure a tobacco-free
workforce:
Why? What? And How?,was a huge success with over
200 individuals participating.
Toolkit Provides Practical Solutions
The
Employer's
Toolkit explains why helping employees quit
smoking is an investment in health and productivity. It provides
a step-by-step guide for covering and promoting an effective stop-smoking
benefit. Employers can adapt the toolkit's colorful
posters to hang in break rooms or convert the newsletter articles
for websites or publications.
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Exposed to
Secondhand Smoke
At
Work?
Raise awareness of the 35,000 workers who are still exposed
to secondhand smoke in the workplace.
Oregon's
smokefree workplace law does NOT cover:
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