USPS revised the Employees and Labor Relations Manual (ELM), the Postal Operations Manual (POM) and Supervisor’s Safety Handbook to ban all lighted or electronic smoking materials. I guess USPS had to figure out some way of including marijuana and other narcotics.
Handbook EL-801 Revision: Smoking
Effective May 15, 2014, the Postal Service™ is revising Handbook EL-801, Supervisor’s Safety Handbook, section 8-21 to clarify the definition of smoking.
Handbook EL-801, Supervisor’s Safety Handbook
8-21 Smoking
[Revise the text of 8-21 to read as follows:]
Smoking is defined as having a lighted or activated electronic cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other smoking material. Smoking is strictly prohibited in all buildings or office space (including service lobbies) owned or leased by the Postal Service. Smoking indoors by any occupant of such space is not allowed.
Local managers, with input from employee representatives, may decide whether or not to permit smoking in designated outdoor locations on Postal Service property.
Smoking is prohibited in any General Service Administration interagency fleet management system vehicles.
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ELM Revision: Smoking
Effective May 15, 2014, the Postal Service™ is revising the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) subchapter 880 to clarify the definition of smoking.
8Safety, Health, and Environment
[Revise the text of 881 to read as follows:]
Smoking is defined as having a lighted or activated electronic cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other smoking material.
Previous language
880 Smoking
881 Definition
Smoking is defined as having a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other smoking material.
POM Revision: Smoking
Effective May 15, 2014, the Postal Service™ is revising the Postal Operations Manual (POM) section 124.532 to clarify the definition of smoking.
[Revise the text of 124.532 to read as follows:]
Smoking (having a lighted or activated electronic cigar, cigarette, pipe, or other smoking material) is strictly prohibited in all buildings or office space (including service lobbies).
I sat down next to a lady at a bar and asked “do you mind if I smoke?” And she replied “I wouldn’t mind if you burst into flames.”
Smokers have become our our modern day lepers. Cell phone use in public should be so scorned. At my high school, we were allowed to smoke during recess. How times have changed.