Announcement

graphic: Ministry of the Interior and Administration

The Department of Civil Protection and Crisis Management of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration provides recommendations for actions in connection with heat waves.
Heat waves are one of the most serious weather threats to public health. Long-lasting persistence of high temperatures can lead to dehydration, exhaustion heat stroke, deterioration of the health of chronically ill people, increased number of fires and overload of energy infrastructure and water supply system. Therefore, it is recommended to take the following measures:

1. Safety of children and young people:

• Providing the right conditions transport of children and their places of stay during summer holidays.
• Maximum duration reduction events taking place in the open space.
• Organize events in air-conditioned rooms or shaded places.
• Ensuring that participants have a permanent access to drinking water.
• Provide security medical system.
• Informing residents about risks associated with leaving children in locked vehicles.

2. Protection of vulnerable people:

• Paying special attention to people the elderly, lonely, chronically ill,
  in the homelessness crisis and people with disabilities.
• Monitoring the situation of people in need of support and providing the necessary assistance.
• Organization involvement non-governmental organizations to support particularly vulnerable people.
• Ensuring access to drinking water and cold rooms.

3. Animal safety:

• Informing residents about risks associated with leaving animals in closed vehicles.
• Ensuring access to water for domestic and free-living animals,
  in public space.
• Providing pets and shaded
  breeding and airy places.

4. Organization of places of refuge from heat:

• Organize and share "cool spots" in buildings public utility or other appropriate facilities.
• Activating Water Curtains or Nozzles foggy areas in places with high pedestrian traffic.
• Creating additional points access to drinking water.
• Map of available places water curtains and water intake points, and the transfer of information about their location.

5. Infrastructure and Supplies:

• Checking the status of power grids and electrical installations by building administrators.
• Energy Efficiency due to the increased load on the air conditioning.
• Ensuring the efficiency of devices air conditioning systems in public transport.
• Reduce water consumption in periods the greatest demand.
• Recommend watering areas green in the morning or at night.
• Recommendation to monitor the condition and proper functioning of photovoltaic installations.
• Water quality monitoring.

6. Security of mass events and assemblies:

• Providing event attendees with mass gatherings and gatherings:

ü access to drinking water,

ü shaded areas,

ü appropriate medical protection.

• Restriction of sales and consumption alcohol during events taking place in high conditions, temperature.
• Analysis of the possibility of limitation, postponement or cancellation of events
  in the event of extreme temperatures.

7. Worker Protection:

• Application of protective measures workers performing work at high temperatures, including the performance of cyclic temperature
  measurements in the workplace, shortening working hours, introducing employee turnover at the stands and the provision of drinks.
• Apply current recommendations Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy on the protection of workers from high temperatures.
• Adapting the work organization to weather conditions,
  in particular for work carried out in open spaces.
• Follow the recommendations of the National Labour Inspectorate in the field of ensuring occupational safety entitled "Work in high and low temperatures".
• Recommendations for employers in the Guide "Good atmosphere at work" www.gov.pl/rodzina.

8. Safety in the areas recreational:

• Increased organ activity control over unguarded water
  bodies and places where bathing is prohibited.
• Increase the number of rescuers bathing areas and bathing areas.
• Intensify activities information on the safe use
  of from the waters.

9. Fire protection:

• Increase threat monitoring fire.
• Introduce appropriate restrictions in access to forests
  in the event of a high or extreme fire hazard, in accordance with
  the applicable regulations.
• Running information campaigns on the prohibition of the use of open flames in forest areas and adjacent and cultivated areas.

10. Informing residents:

• Regular Warning meteorological regulations and recommendations for action during hot weather.
• Exploiting all available communication channels, including websites, media social networks, SMS notification systems and local message.
• Inform you about the location of places access points to water and available forms of assistance for people particularly vulnerable.