What is meant by ventilation system in respect of designated rooms?
If hotel bedrooms have mechanical ventilation, this should be used. However, an openable window that allows good natural ventilation will suffice, assuming that within a hotel bedroom, there would only be one or two people smoking. Hotel bedrooms which do not allow good natural ventilation due to other health and safety issues (e.g. windows which are not fully openable), should not be designated as bedrooms in which smoking can take place. Designated rooms in adult care homes and psychiatric units should have some form of forced air ventilation that vents to the outside of the building. Designated rooms in these premises are intended for the use of residents only, not for staff or visitors. Staff should not normally be required to work in these designated smoking rooms. If they have to enter them, then their time of exposure to second-hand smoke should be kept to a minimum. Staff with pre-existing conditions exacerbated by second-hand smoke, e.g. asthma, should not be asked to enter th
