Tobacco Free Partners Your Resource for Better Health

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Sustaining a Smoke Free Workplace
Presented byLaura R. Van Heest
Tobacco Free Partners Your
Resource for Better Health
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Its not about the SMOKER

• Its ALL about 2nd Hand Smoke

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Agenda

• Enforcement
• Legal Issues
• Land-boundary
• Union Issues
• Measuring Outcomes

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Education Enforcement

• Change
• Norm of Society
• Culture of the Workplace
• It takes time
• Education
• Advertising

• PUBLIC
• ASSOCIATES

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Education - Public

• Pre-information
• Preadmission
• Scheduling
• Advertising
• Hospital Information Guides
• Hospital Campus Maps

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Education - Public

• Admission / Out-patient Programs
• Information to Patient
• Consent to Treat Forms
• Visitors or potential visitors
• Telephone hold messages
• Information Kiosks

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Education - Public

• Written materials to Support Effort

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Education Associates

• Tool kit for Managers Supervisors
• Group meetings or private meetings
• Mailed information on Policy enforcement
• List expectations

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EnforcementWhose Responsibility
is it?
Public
Associates
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EnforcementPublic Associate

• Policy needs to become part of the expected
  quality of what a hospital or health care
  facility is supposed to be!!!!
• MHA policy brings that forward

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Associate Public Enforcement

• If its everyones responsibility than no one is
  essentially accountable.
• Managers MUST uniformly enforce the policy
• Each institution will have to decide who the lead
  department is for enforcement.
• Security
• Respiratory
• Human Resources

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Legal

• Smoking is not a right
• Union issues

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Define Your Campus
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Measuring Outcomes

• Associates
• of Interventions
• Disciplinary Actions
• Associates
• Pro
• Con
• Cessation rates
• Smokers before
• Smokes post

• Public
• Complaints
• Pro
• Con
• Security Issues
• Interventions