Title: No Smoking Month: Encourage Staff to take part
March is No Smoking month
Why not download this poster for your department and encourage a staff member to access the Stop Smoking Service Stop Smoking Service Poster
The benefits for your staff include:
- Better health for your workforce (smoking remains the UK’s number one cause of preventable illness and premature death, killing half of long-term smokers)
- Increased productivity
- Reduced absence due to sickness. Smokers take 4.4 more days sick leave than non-smokers
- Unofficial smoke breaks and additional sick leave taken by smokers are costing UK businesses £8.7 billion annually in lost productivity);
- Efficiency and financial savings
- Improved staff morale
- A better corporate image for your directorate
- A cleaner environment
- A step towards closing the gap of health inequalities (smoking is the number 1 factor in the inequality gap being so wide, especially for our lowest paid staff)
- To make a referral for yourself or a colleague simply click here and complete the short referral form.
- Email stopsmoking@belfasttrust.hscni.net
- Call Fiona McCabe 0770127926
Remember we are a Smoke Free Trust and have a Smoke Free Policy View Here
For more information Visit Stop Smoking | B Well Belfast (hscni.net)