WAC 296-800-24005   Prohibit tobacco smoke in your office work environment.  Exemption: The minimum criteria specified in this rule do not apply to outdoor structures provided for smokers such as gazebos or lean-tos that maintain the twenty-five feet distance from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited.

     You must:

     (1) Prohibit smoking in your office work environment

     (2) Use administrative controls to prevent tobacco smoke from entering your office from outside the building.

     • Make sure that outside smoking areas used by your employees are at least twenty-five feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, 49.17.040, 49.17.050, 49.17.060. 06-22-023, § 296-800-24005, filed 10/24/06, effective 12/1/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010,[49.17].040 , and [49.17].050. 01-11-038, § 296-800-24005, filed 5/9/01, effective 9/1/01.]