All policies need to take account of specific workplace circumstances and the views obtained during the consultation process with employees.
It is probably best to have a stand alone smoking policy for your business.
Download guidance including a sample workplace smoking policy (DOC, 32KB) [1].
You'll need to decide whether to have separate drugs and alcohol misuse policies or a combined one. There are legal differences between drugs and alcohol, but they affect the workplace in a similar way. For this reason they are both dealt with using similar procedures.
Download a sample workplace drugs and alcohol policy (PDF, 114K) [2].
If you are writing a combined policy it is important that it clearly states that it applies to both alcohol and drug misuse. This is to make sure that it isn’t ignored by workers who don’t see it as relevant to them.
The list below may act as a guide to what a policy on smoking, drugs or alcohol should include:
Download a sample drugs and alcohol policy template (DOC, 16K) [3].
Links
[1] https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/downloads/smoking-workplace-guide-employers
[2] http://www.hseni.gov.uk/workplace_drugs_and_alcohol_policies_-_example_policy.pdf
[3] https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/downloads/sample-alcohol-and-drug-policy.docx
[4] http://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/node/14320
[5] https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content-category/health-and-safety