Is smoking permitted in fire assembly areas?

Technically, there is no legislation that prevents a worker from smoking during a fire assembly. However, it is considered a good practice to set a company rule to not smoke during the event of a fire drill.

The Health Act 2006 legislates for smoke-free premises, places and vehicles. This usually just related to inside buildings, but some organisations extend this to the boundaries of their entire work premises as good practice.

The non-smoking area boundary could be extended to your organisation’s fire assembly area. Even if it is fire assembly area is located outside of your work premises, employees are there as part of their working time, so company policy could be introduced to just ban smoking during working hours.

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