here is your answer, ask to see the policy on smoking.
where i work its 15ft from any door entrance including overhead doors.
Q: Does the new law prohibit smoking near main entances of a workplace? At my place of employment, the smokers all huddle in the little alcove area of the employee entrance, especially during inclement weather. This area is only about 6 ft x 3 ft. and we all must walk through the second hand smoke every morning and every lunch break if you want to leave the building.
All restrictions in the law, with the exception of restaurants, pertain to indoor areas. In the case of restaurants with outdoor seating areas (no ceiling or cover,) smoking is permitted in no more than 25% of the outdoor area.
However, many individual workplace smoking policies also restrict where outdoor smoking on company grounds is permitted. Owners of commercial buildings with leased space may also set policies for smoking outside the building.
Under the original (1989) Clean Indoor Air Act, workplaces were required to have written smoking policies. Often, those policies specifically designate an outdoor smoking area away from the main entrance (for customers or employees.) Others may designate no smoking within 50ft of an entrance or building.
Call thier insurance company and tell them they do it all the time and you have video.
I know alot of insurance companys don;t go for the smoking inside garages, a place a family member whom smokes (disgusting) and has to go outside to do it, per the insurance of the place.
I actually walked out of West Herr Dodge for this VERY SAME thing. I contacted Scott Beiler and told him it was stinking up customers’ vehicles for delivery and generally pissing me off. He handled it but shortly after even my manager didn’t give a shit anymore. So I walked out…if you can’t find a resolution contact the health department as it is a violation of NY’s Clean Indoor Air Act
I would be very careful before contacting any kind of authority like these guys are telling you. If they find out you did that, especially if they get a fine you can expect your work life to be worse than it already is.
Make sure you can remain anonymous and make sure nobody will assume it’s you.
Lay low for a week or two, then make an anonymous call to OSHA or the health department.
Your employer will probably figure it was you, but if they actually retaliate then you’ve got to ask yourself if you really want to work there. And if you want to sue them.
This. Everyone knew who the girl was who called OSHA on the company I work for. She sucked at her job and probably took longer to get fired because of the complaint than had she not called OSHA. The owner knew if she wasn’t let go with great proof of cause she would just turn around and sue claiming it was retaliation.