sample="quota" bates="TIMN0063797" isource="ti" decade="19xx" class="ui" date="19000000" MOVING TOWARD A BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION Group 4: SMOKING CONTROL IN THE WORKPLACE Leader: Robert N. Beck Recorder: Willis Goldbeck I. OBJECTIVES OF WORK GROUP: To reduce smoking at work by increasing the number of employers with smoking control policies and programs: to reduce employer smoking related expenses; and to meet the health needs of employees and their dependents. II. The three recommendations considered most important and steps needed for their implementation are as follows: Recommendation #1: Create and distribute a model corporate policy on smoking control. Action Needed: Incorporate this model policy in proceedings of this conference; distribute this model policy to the sponsoring organizations of the conference, public and private employers, labor organizations and the media. Recommendation #2: Develop information and inventive strategies for involving organizational leaders in smoking control activities. Action Needed: Develop a comprehensive analysis of the costs and benefits of smoking control programs and policies; constitute a Task Force involving key experts to develop the analysis; provide information to organizational leaders on companies with effective smoking control policies and programs; encourage gov er nment to provide leadership and serve as a role-model; initiate public relations campaign involving top organizational leaders. Recommendation #3: Increase and improve resources available for worksite programs through educational curricula and job descriptions. Action Needed: Distribute national standards on smoking control programs; encourage employers to use a wide range of program approaches to employers; incorporate prevention in health professional curricula; incorporate responsibility for prevention into health professional job descriptions.