Under the smoke-free legislation, workplaces must be smoke free if they are "enclosed" or "substantially enclosed". What does this mean?
Under the smoke-free legislation, are employers obliged to offer their employees assistance in giving up smoking?
Under the smoke-free legislation, can an employer permit customers or clients, rather than employees, to smoke on its premises?
Does the smoke-free legislation mean that employers can no longer permit their employees to smoke on the pavement outside the workplace?
Under the smoke-free legislation, can an employer continue to provide a smoking room for employees, so long as no smoke enters the surrounding rooms and corridors?
Under the smoke-free legislation, must employers ensure that homeworkers do not smoke at home?
Where employees are required to live on their employer's premises, are they permitted to smoke in the accommodation provided?
Under the smoke-free legislation, are employers obliged to specify outside smoking areas on their premises?
Under the smoke-free legislation, can employers provide smoking shelters for their employees?
What obligations does an employer have where, as part of their duties, staff members visit clients who smoke in their homes?
Are there any exemptions from the smoke-free legislation?
Where an employer provides company cars to its employees, is it obliged to make the cars no-smoking areas under the smoke-free legislation?
Where employees receive a car allowance instead of a company car, under the smoke-free legislation must the employer ensure that they do not smoke in any car purchased with the allowance?
Under the smoke-free legislation, what requirements are there for no-smoking signs in buildings?
Under the smoke-free legislation, what requirements are there for no-smoking signs in vehicles?
It is a requirement under the smoke-free legislation that
signage is displayed in all vehicles that are required to be smoke free. A sign
displaying the international no-smoking symbol (not less than 70mm in diameter)
should be displayed in each compartment of such a vehicle. For example, in a
taxi cab it will be necessary to display signs in both the driver's compartment
and the passenger area.
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