Strategies to Prevent Smoking in the Workplace

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Human Resource Management

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Work health and safety..........................................................................................................................2
Steps taken to prevent smoking.............................................................................................................3
Recommendations to control smoking as a problem at the workplace...................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................6
References.............................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
The human resource management is a strategic approach for the effective management of
organizational members to help business to enhance productivity and gain competitive
advantage. It describes management and development of members at an organization. The
work health and safety is promoted at an organization for the efficient utilization of
resources. In order to promote workplace health and safety, certain issues are faced by an
organization. Smoking is the major issue taken in this report to discuss work health and
safety. The consequences of health issues impact the performance of an organization. This
report discusses the strategies to prevent smoking. These strategies comprise non-smoking
policies, education and cessation programmes. Further, the recommendations are defined to
control smoking which is considered the problem at workplaces.
Work health and safety
It is the responsibility of the organization to provide workplace health and safety. It is
required to provide information and training to the employees in order to ensure health and
safety at the workplace. It helps to reduce mental and work-related illness. It equally reduces
absence of employees. It promotes a positive health and safety culture. It encourages an
environment to work safely without any risk to their health. The employees have also right to
consult with employers about their health and safety matters (Winickoff. et.al. 2009). The
common health and safety issue faced by the contemporary organizations is smoking. It is
the most avoidable cause of disease, illness and health. Smoking decreases productivity and
increases sick days.
The health implications of smoking seem to be endless on the members of an organization.
Smoking causes disease such as cancer and damages to lungs, heart, veins etc. the smoking
does not badly affect body but mind as well. It has negative effects on the work performance.
The smoke of cigarette comprises 7000 chemicals and 60 cancer-causing chemicals. It causes
damage to every part of the body. It also results in the long term diseases which affects the
respiratory, cardiac and immune system. The smoking is highly known to damage physical
health which is a major factor in cancer and cardiac diseases. It also declines the
performance of the brain. It has been observed that smokers perform poorly and have bad
mental ability overall. The smoking also leads to the dementia and high blood pressure risk
(Siahpush, McNeill, Hammond & Fong, 2006).