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A Good Day's Work: A Guide for Tobacco-Free Work Sites in Arizona, First Edition,
1999
Operating in Leased Facilities Multiple
Business Buildings
Businesses that share office space in a multi-use building may be
unable to institute a full tobacco free policy. If the business in the
office next to you allows smoking, and you have a shared ventilation
system, you cannot adequately protect your workers without their
assistance. Even if smoking is not allowed within a building, if other
occupants smoke around entrance doors, your employees are still
being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (at the entrance,
and as that smoke enters and circulates throughout the building).
The first step in initiating a smoke free policy throughout the building
would be to meet with other businesses within the building.
Once you have identified supportive businesses, make an
appointment to meet with the property manager. Explain your policy
and your concerns regarding other businesses' tobacco smoke, as
well as economical and health facts from this manual. Ask the
property manager to consider instituting a building wide tobacco
free policy and to establish an outside smoking area away from
entrances and ventilation systems. Request that all indoor ash
buckets be removed and that "no smoking" signage be installed at
all entrances, in stairwells, and on each floor.
If the manager is unwilling to institute such a policy, DON'T GIVE
UP!!! Ask for assistance from your local tobacco prevention
project (see Attachment II), your city or county administration and
the appropriate federal organizations (listed in Attachment II).
Summary :
31 A Good Day's Work: A Guide for Tobacco-Free Work Sites in Arizona, First Edition, 1999 Operating in Leased Facilities Multiple Business Buildings Businesses that share office space in a multi-use building may be unable to institute a full tobacco free policy. Even if smoking is not allowed within a building, if other occupants smoke around entrance doors, your employees are still being exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (at the entrance, and as that smoke enters and circulates throughout the building).
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