Abstract

The Regulation of the Minister of Public Works Number: 26 / PRT / M / 2008 about technical requirements of fire protection in buildings and environments has not been implemented optimally in hotels. The purpose of this research is to analyze the fire prevention system of hotel building in Palembang City. The research design was Cross Sectional, sampling technique used Stratified Random Sampling with 31 hotels as the sample. Data analysis used Chi Square test. The result of this research shows that from 31 hotels, 74.2% have good fire prevention system, 58.06% of fire officer access is eligible, 93.55% of water supply is eligible, 83.87% of the tools of rescue is eligible,74.19% of active protection system is eligible, 74.19% of knowledge of fire manager is eligible. The result of statistical analysis showed that there is no correlation between access of fire fighter, water supply and active protection system with the fire prevention system at hotel. The related factors were the tools of rescue; passive protection system; the knowledge of fire safety manager. The conclusions of this research is the related factors that has relation with fire prevention facilities at hotels in Palembang City is the tools of rescue, passive protection system and knowledge of fire safety manager. The writer suggests to improve the fire prevention knowledge for all hotel staff, to inform visitors about the way route of escape, the improvement of routine maintenance and coaching from managerial and the existence of further research on fire prevention system.

Highlights

  • One consideration of the tourists in choosing their holiday destination is a guarantee of security from their destination.[1]

  • Active Protection System The results of this study found that 31 hotels, alarm and detectory which is eligible is 83.87%, pole hydrants which is eligible is 67.74%, eligble hydrant wall is 100%, eligible automatic sprinkler is 96.78%, eligible fire extinguisher is 90.33%

  • According to the research that has been done in Palembang Hotel, it can be concluded that:1) The proportion of hotel access in Palembang City is 58.06% eligible

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Introduction

One consideration of the tourists in choosing their holiday destination is a guarantee of security from their destination.[1] Indonesia provides security assurance to the visitors of the hotel with the issuance of Regulation of the Minister of Tourism for Creative Economy Number 106 in 2011. The estimation of hotels’ fire from 2009-2013 is 3520 fires per year occurred in the United States, caused 9 deaths, 120 injuries and $ 84 millions in asset losses. Most fire sources are from the kitchen, which are the two of every five fires (41%), due to heating equipment (9%), clothing dryer (8%), smoking (8%), carelessness (9.2%), 3.3%), play with heat source (0.3%) and 11.1% flame. Nasya et al conducted a study on hotels in the former administrative city of Jember, found that only 11.11% of hotels implemented fire management system[3]

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