What are the restrictions around my workers entering the DSR?
Employees cannot be obligated to enter a Designated Smoking Room (DSR). Owners or employers may permit an employee to enter a DSR only if the employee has volunteered to enter the DSR and even then the employee can spend no more than 20% of their work day or shift in the room. Also, employees may enter a DSR to respond to an emergency or if the room is free from second-hand smoke. Employees of the long term care facility and members of the public are not permitted to smoke in a long term care facility’s designated smoking room.
