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Smoking - Reducing the risks
Some ways to reduce the risks associated with workplace smoking may be:
- ensuring employees and contractors do not smoke in places where smoke could enter the building
- ensuring employees do not smoke in areas where other employees, contractors and third parties enter or exit the building and in other frequently used passageways
- developing an educational support program warning employees of the dangers of smoking
- encouraging employees to stop smoking through access to quit smoking courses
Employers who are one of several tenants in a building may need to negotiate a ban on smoking in certain areas as part of a building lease. They may need to negotiate this with other tenants or the owner.
Where employees or contractors are limited to smoking in particular areas outside a building, the employer should ensure those areas are well ventilated to get rid of any environmental tobacco smoke.