SOLUTIONS FOR NOTIFICATION ISSUES AND SAFETY FOR STAFF AND VISITORS IN HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS AGAINST WARFARE THREATS

Abstract

This study analyzes the issue of notifying visitors of hotel and restaurant businesses (HRB) about threats and ensuring their safety by sheltering in special or adapted premises. Alerting and sheltering the civilian population is regulated by a number of normative acts, primarily by the Code of Civil Protection of Ukraine. At the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, the situation related to the safety issues during warfare was critical. For HRBs located within populated areas, sirens, mobile applications and messengers, and internet maps are widely used to notify staff and visitors about an air alarm. These tools are the main source of warning about possible threats. HRE located outside populated areas, where sirens are not installed and where mobile communication is unstable, should be equipped with signaling and loudspeaker devices, electronic information boards. Radio broadcasting may also serve to transmit warning messages. Upon receiving information about the danger, the civilian population must proceed to a shelter. HRBs located in cities experience no problems with notification or civil protection structures fund (CPSF). For such institutions, specially equipped shelters located nearby serve as shelters. The HRB management should inform visitors and staff about the nearest CPSF locations, as well as conclude contracts with those responsible for these structures. This is a necessary measure to guarantee that the appropriate building will accept the required number of people under its protection. In the Cherkasy region, provision of shelter facilities for recreation businesses located outside the cities was absent during the years of the active phase of the russian-ukrainian war. HRB owners are recommended to install primitive protective structures and to technically equip a hazard warning system in their establishments.