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ANEXT REVIEW DATE: May, 1996
POSITION RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEW: Director, Environmental Health & Safety
PURPOSE: To establish policy and procedures for providing a safe and healthy environment for FMS staff members, clients, vendors, students, and visitors by protecting communal air.
BACKGROUND: For some years it has been established that smoking endangers the health of the smoker by increasing the risk of cancer, lung disease, and cardiovascular disease. During the past decade, medical research has also demonstrated that involuntary or passive smoke exposure can be hazardous to the health of non-smokers. According to the 1986 Report of the Surgeon General, "The scientific case against involuntary smoking as a health risk is more than sufficient to justify appropriate remedial action, and the goal of any remedial action must be to protect the non-smoker from environmental tobacco smoke."
POLICY: It is the policy of FMS to provide a smoke-free environment for staff members, students, faculty and visitors in FMS spaces, to the fullest extent possible. This policy relies for its successful implementation on the thoughtfulness, consideration, and cooperation of FMS staff members. Where some people have the need to smoke and other people have the need to breathe smoke-free air, the need for smoke-free air shall have priority. This smoking policy is applicable to all FMS spaces and vehicles.
PROCEDURES:
1. Smoking is prohibited in FMS facilities except in designated smoking areas.
2. Non-smoking areas include public access space such as hallways, meeting rooms, stairways, conference rooms, lunch rooms, restrooms, open office areas, lounge areas, and any areas that are deemed fire/safety hazards by the university fire safety specialist.
3. Smoking is prohibited in all FMS vehicles.
4. Smokers extinguish smoking materials before entering any FMS vehicle or building.
5. Smoking is permitted outside the FMS building at locations where containers are available to collect discardable smoking residue.
6. FMS staff members working in building spaces under the control of other departments observe the smoking policies established for those spaces.
7. FMS staff members do not receive "smoking breaks." FMS staff members who smoke observe only the same break periods that apply to non-smoking staff members who do similar work.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Directors are responsible for installing signs in the FMS facilities they control to identify designated smoking areas, and non-smoking areas.
2. FMS staff members are responsible for observing this policy and procedures, and for providing information courteously to anyone smoking in a non-smoking area about the FMS policy of "no smoking except in clearly designated areas."
REFERENCES:
1. Pittsburgh Code, Title 6, Article 1, chapter 617
2. Carnegie Mellon Organization Announcement No. 314, dated July 8, 1988
CANCELLATIONS: None
SIGNATURE:
Edward A. Guida, PE, CIH
Director, Environmental Health & Safety
ATTACHMENTS: None