Posted By J Knight Hi Anwar, You can have a smoking room for your service users in residential accommodation, or to put it another way the person in control of the premises can designate one or more rooms as smoking rooms, provided you don't let staff smoke in them. Guidance from DOH says that such rooms are for smoking only, but it is just guidance, and has not as yet been tested in court, and in any event I think maybe duties under HASAWA and RR(FS)O have some priority here, not to mention Care Standards Act 2000. One of our lawyers thinks the stipulation about no TVs etc in smoking rooms will be tested and will probably fail, though it will depend on the individual circumstances of the case of course. Rock and hard place comes to mind; if people might die you could also consider automatic fire suppression (sprinklers); though people would complain it would stop them smoking in their rooms. I've had a quote of 50K for a 28 bed residential premises. Best of luck, John

Posted By Descarte how about installing heat detectors (instead of smoke detectors) so there is automatic alarm activation in the event of a fire. I would rpesume that smoke detectors wouldnt be a good idea in a room where people are allowed to smoke.