Breaks

weve generally got tests booked all day so I get a lunch break booked 1.00-1.30 give or take 15 mins as otherwise I wouldn't get a chance to eat at all.can understand fitting it in as and when but that only works if you can rely on gaps and 10 mins free just before shutting time 10 hrs after you started work don't cut no ice with me.....

If its the legal breaks your after they are rubbish,if you work more than 6 hours a day its just 20 minuets uninterupted break

yup,every test,my bay is 2 yards from the doors,rolling/smoking a fag while I tot up brake efforts/work out percentages/sign emissions prints don't eat into test time that way despite the managers repeated digs.you put your fone down for 10 mins and I will stop smoking except for breaks-deal?nah,thought not

I have to say, even as a smoker, that would pi$$ me off as well in your position. But there must be times when they can have one and keep working? Paperwork, using the laptop, booking tests out and so on?
And, before anyone talks about the dangers of passive smoking in the workplace if you're doing diesel emissions tests and welding in there as well, really?

It's been illegal to smoke inside the workplace for years, so the only "accepted" practice is to go outside. When I worked for the local government ours was a non smoking site, so anyone wanting a fag had to go the outher side of the gate's!

 snap except got a grandfarther bay so half the motor is outside when doing emissions..fooking health mot am i a c#nt for checking if its got a smoke plate value, failing it cause it exceeds said limit?. or forget checking for any plate and everyone is happy?. & dont forget your risk assessment or rag as they call it. Feedback tell em that 100% of those who had a health MOT would recommend it to a colleague nuff said

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Give people in authority some legal power and they allways abuse it.

So a 2 stroke strimmer belching out blue smoke is OK then? But, yeah, council rules.....

ditto.is it just me or has the amount of smokes you have gone UP since the smoking ban?dunno about you guys but when I was allowed to smoke when working I would have 1 every hour or two,smoke/don't smoke didn't matter.when the ban came in every chance I got I would be by the door having a fag cos I didn't know when my next chance was gonna be and I have to hope that wasn't the intention behind it.mind you it could be a sign of the gvmnt playing a long game.think about it,every time you go past a boozer/office etc the same bunch of nicotine addicts gathered outside yes?the gvmnts main concern is it costs em money long term yes?(even tho the tax far exceeds the outgoings at least on average)so if you force said nicotine addicts(who by definition already have compromised respiratory and associated systems)to stand outside in the pi$$ing rain/sleet/wind/snow then you can kill em off earlier/cleaner/quicker at a far reduced cost,ITS A WINNER!they should be pinning medals on us instead for selflessly risking our health and wellbeing both monetary and physical day in day out for decades on end in order to fund the rest of our societies activities.perspective is everything......there may be others out there with differing views.me?i just call what I see.