Recently there has been an increase in calls related to smoke odors in several campus buildings that have been attributed to the discard of smoking materials in trash receptacles inside buildings.
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Recently, several calls have been received by UNMC officials regarding smoke in garbage receptacles in campus buildings. Employees are reminded that UNMC is a tobacco-free campus. |
Fires have been caused on campus after cigarette butts were placed in trash cans or discarded in near combustible materials, said UNMC safety manager John Hauser, who noted that smoking material should never be discarded in trash receptacles or near combustibles.
“Smoking is the leading cause of fire deaths and cigarettes cause numerous fire disasters,” Hauser said. “This winter the fire danger is even great due do the dry conditions.”
People smoke out in front of the circle drive all of the time, right IN FRONT of the no smoking signs. The rule needs to be enforced a lot better.
What are we supposed to do when our own Employees don't even follow this policy? It looks very unprofessional when our own staff is standing outside in their scrubs with their ID badges smoking. The first thing people see when they pull into campus from Saddle Creek and Emile Street is a group of employees huddled outside the DRC I & II smoking.
I agree with Carrie that this needs to be enforced better. It is quite gross walking through a cloud of smoke coming to or leaving work.
I for one am not going to approach a patient/family member that is smoking in the circle drive,parking garage etc because you do not know what that person may be going thru or dealing with, they may have a family member that is extremely ill or may have just passed away and maybe that is their way of dealing or coping with the stress, I feel that we should still have designated smoking area's away from the front door/entryway and then we wouldnt have the issue of walking thru a cloud of smoke.
The only way to protect the staff, students and patients health is helping with a 100% compliance of the tobacco/smoke-free policy implemented in our campus. Let's advocate for smoke-free air!