Smoking on the yard.

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Does anyone feel there are any issues with people smoking on their yard?

I smoke, but I live onsite and so I have a lot more freedom to smoke away from stables. Does anybody have a 'designated area'? Or is it more a common sense thing with livery clients? Obviously with all the hay/straw/wooden buildings around it's a nightmare waiting to happen. We're a small (used to be farm) yard. How do other yards deal with it? Outright ban?

Thanks.
 
I've been at yards where you cannot smoke at all, ones with deisignated areas and ones where no one cares where you smoke. Being a smoker I really didn't like the yard where you had to go smoke outside the yard, it was a bit ridiculous with a whole crowd of us standing outside the gates for a ciggie. However I think its dangerous to smoke in stables and near barns and now I run my own yard I have a smoking table down by the school which seems to work and it keeps all the butts in one place.
 
therews only me and a girl who lives on the farm who smokes and we both use common sense. no smoking in stables/ barns and butts go in a bin,

Other yards i've been on have had a smoking area and some have had nothing and irrisponsible people who were happy to smoke whilst mucking out :(
 
Blanket ban on the actual yard, up by the school you can smoke (it is quite a distance from the barns and stables).
 
i've been on yards with different rulings, one place there was no smoking allowed at all and we all had to stand on the road (away from yard entrance) to smoke. i didn't really mind as such BUT the number of times i had to wait for the vet for things like colic and stuff made it very stressful, i was desperate to have a fag to calm my nerves but that meant leaving my horse so i couldn't, by the time got there i would be a bundle of nerves!

was on a yard where you could smoke wherever you wanted, no rules but i never smoked in the buildings, i would go to a place away from the hay/buildings and have a fag but it was still close enough to be near my horse is waiting for a vet!

i'm now on a yard where there is a designated smoking area, people go there to have a cuppa and a fag before doing the next job. the only problem with that is that non smokers crowd the bench and then complain that they are inhaling our smoke, they have plenty of options to sit but choose to sit at the only place a smoker can sit!
 
I hate smoking on the yard, probably because it was drummed into me as a child how dangerous it can be, unfotunately one person I work for thinks nothing of smoking in the stables, or the hay shed and does it all the time :(
 
I have an outright ban, No smoking on any part of my premises whatso ever, Just means that there is no room for accidents and mistakes. It's black and white.

If clients have a need to smoke they must go outside the main security gates onto the lane leading to the yard and pick up and dispose of all rubbish in the metal bins provided.
 
I hate smoking on the yard and I have been known to chuck a bucket of water over someone I found smoking right outside one of the stables. Where I am now it is allowed in the car park which is far enough away to be fairly safe.
 
I've been on yards with smoking areas which I guess is fine as long as its well away from any stables. I know people who are happy to regularly smoke in stables and near hay or straw. Makes me sick, if they saw their horses trapped in burning stables I'm sure their priorities would change.
 
Magnetic Sparrow said:
I hate smoking on the yard and I have been known to chuck a bucket of water over someone I found smoking right outside one of the stables. Where I am now it is allowed in the car park which is far enough away to be fairly safe.
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ha, I bet you're popular!


I used to smoke, when I did I personally wouldn't have done so near hay/straw/in stables, none of the yards I've been on have had restrictions or designated areas, mostly people use their common sense.
 
Just a thought but I would have thought that smoking on the yard would have implications re insurance and health and saftey issues. and any ensuing fire found to have been caused by a discarded ciggie/match ect could be deemed as negligence on the part of the yard owner. ps. i also smoke. ! but not in my stables.
 
There's a blanket ban on my current yard. Having said that, all the yards I've been on here (Germany) have had blanket bans, except in the Reiterstüben (club rooms).

Which has been interesting at times. I've seen owners take refuge in their vehicles for a quick ciggie, but horrified to see the stubs flicked out of the window afterwards........:eek::mad: The YO at this particular establishment wasn't particularly bothered, being a heavy smoker himself. :confused: So I can only presume the ban was an insurance requirement.

Also going to a Grillabend (barbecue) in the barn this evening. The horses are currently out 24/7, but it will be interesting to see who, if anyone, lights up (suspect more than a few! :rolleyes:), and where exactly the barbecue will be located.
 
Am a heavy smoker and I hate smoking on yards it drives me insane,
When I started with horses there was a big bay mare who had burn scars in bottom of muzzle and around face and all down the back of her legs. When I asked someone what happened they said her owners wife was smoking outside stable and discarded butt nearby she got caught in the fire :(
That story along with the mare made me very wary about smoking around the yard.
Most places I have been on have either had a smoking area or by the school or just off yard in carpark
 
Absolute non smoker here - never even tried it! A bronchitic victim of my fathers chain smoking.

Blanket ban on smoking in a yard - it is just too risky! When I had my riding school there was a total ban on smoking anywhere on the property and I only employed non-smokers. Also felt that it was not a good example to set for all the young riders. While many people will be sensible and make sure that they extinguise cigarettes properly and safely there will be one, oneday that will drop a ciggarette in the wrong place.

I don't know if it is the same in UK but in NZ smoking is banned in the workplace - so if there are people employed at the yard it is in fact illegal to do so. I've worked in racing stables where the staff would totally ignore the smoking ban unless the big boss was around.
 
brucethegypsycob said:
Just a thought but I would have thought that smoking on the yard would have implications re insurance and health and saftey issues. and any ensuing fire found to have been caused by a discarded ciggie/match ect could be deemed as negligence on the part of the yard owner.
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just what i was thinking, I don't smoke so it's not an issue anymore but my hubs does, he can smoke in my field all he likes but i do have a fit if i catch him near the stables or barn lol:)
 
Who needs to taint the fresh air and relaxing supposedly happy places where we go to enjoy our horses, with smelly smoke anyway. It's not like it woul be acceptible for an alcoholic to wander round the yard with a bottle of vodka. Have a ciggie when you get home, spend your time at the yard with your horse in a healthy smoke free enivironment ;)

*ducks*


Also i have seen a stupid farmer burn his own stables down because he thought it was ok to smoke around them. Changed his mind after that...
 
Smoking is allowed on my yard at the many designated outdoor seating areas only. No smoking anywhere near barns or stables and I don't allow smoking in fields or while walking around or riding.
 
No smoking on the yard itself, designated smoking area (with metal bins) across the (tarmac) track that divides the dressage arena from the actual yard. Yes, the smokers have to sit in the rain and all other weather to smoke, but it's better than having the yard burn down ;).

Have to say that any yard that allowed smoking ON the actual yard near all that hay, straw, wood, etc. would not be one that I would be frequenting. Safety first and all that.

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Do you know, been at my yard since Feb, and as a smoker,it never even entered my head to ask if I can smoke on yard.....why would I? Its just asking for trouble.....:(

I cant stand to see people smoking where my girl lives, in her nice STRAW filled stable, with WOODEN beams...and a nice DRY HAY barn round the back!!

Fortunately for my sanity, I was the only smoker on yard when I moved there....and I quit a week ago..... I'm not loaded and pony wants LOTS of nice things,lol :D

Honestly though...I really dont mind what others do on their yards, but Im happy that mine is smoke free!!
 
There are signs around our yard saying no smoking but a few certain people smoke in the barn by their stables. The particular barn only has about 5 stables but also has a 20x40 indoor in it so is quite annoying to ride in there and have to smell their smoke. But not only that I really dont think anyone should smoke in the barns and I dont know why they think they can ignore the rules.
 
You can smoke in the car park at our yard. No smoking on the actual yard and all butts must be properly out and in the bin before you go back on the yard. Everyone respects this and it works. Nobody on our yard would dream of smoking near stables, barn etc. X x
 
You can smoke in the car park at ours and out in the fields. But thats it. Teenagers have been caught smoking in stables though, they get severely told off and reported to mums.
 
Smoking on the Yard should be Totaly Banned as it is both IGNORANT and STUPID with hay straw wooden buildings etc. my parents both smoked but never on the yard I smked but never on the yard.

Ihave been given 15 years and JUST DONT HAVE THE WILLPOWER TO START AGAIN:D:D:D
 
JoJo_ said:
There are signs around our yard saying no smoking but a few certain people smoke in the barn by their stables. The particular barn only has about 5 stables but also has a 20x40 indoor in it so is quite annoying to ride in there and have to smell their smoke. But not only that I really dont think anyone should smoke in the barns and I dont know why they think they can ignore the rules.
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I believe that your indoor school and stables are technically an enclosed public space - ie covered by the national smoking ban. Check that out, could be breaking the law.
 
Our viewing gallery was burnt down following a cigarette being dropped
Could have been worse as It was attached to our indoor school which is attached to the main barn. We have a no smoking policy across the whole preemies. Anyone who wants to smoke ma do so outside the gates.
 
On my yard, its totally no smoking but we say if people have to smoke, then they must only do so in their cars which are in the car parking areas and they must take their ends home with them.
Over the years we have had a few totally ignore this rule, despite being repeatedly told! How anyone can think its acceptable to smoke in the door way of where the hay/straw is stacked is beyond me.
 
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