Work meeting about smoking policy/ vaping

[Mr Ripple]

@Crewella wins.

I think you may be lost?

 

[Mr Ripple]

That's pretty much what the last para of the HSE FAQs page says:

If an employer decides to 'prohibit' the use of e-cigarettes in the workplace but allow for ‘vaping’ breaks or provide areas where employees can use e-cigarettes, the employer needs to ensure that those who use e-cigarettes are not put at risk of harm from second-hand tobacco smoke.​

Exactly.
If i worked in a fixed place id vape in the smoking shelter if forced to and use the fact they were not providing me a smoke free place to force the companies hand.

 

[zouzounaki]

I think you may be lost?

Not at all, I’m not lost, thanks.

 

[zouzounaki]

Exactly.
If i worked in a fixed place id vape in the smoking shelter if forced to and use the fact they were not providing me a smoke free place to force the companies hand.

@Crewella ’s post would be much better ammunition than what you had suggested, but even then it’s only guidance. If they ignored you and refused you’d need to take it to court, then there would be a precedent set either way.

 

[Crewella]

And the worry is they might just ban both altogether?

 

[zouzounaki]

And the worry is they might just ban both altogether?

I suppose that would be a possibility, especially if you took them to court and lost. They’d want to shaft you as hard as they could.

 

[Mr Ripple]

And the worry is they might just ban both altogether?

This but think it would royally backfire though.
I remember going without a ciggy.
Made me into one of the seven dwarfs.

 

[Mr Ripple]

@Crewella ’s post would be much better ammunition than what you had suggested, but even then it’s only guidance. If they ignored you and refused you’d need to take it to court, then there would be a precedent set either way.

If it was that easy though bud im sure this thread wouldnt exist.

 

[Mr Ripple]

Not at all, I’m not lost, thanks.

Thought you thought i was on the opposite team.
Realise what you were saying now given your follow up post

 

[zouzounaki]

If it was that easy though bud im sure this thread wouldnt exist.

Well it’s not easy, that’s the point. But easy to summarise