Abstract:

Due to the increasing threat of long-term blackout and its impact on all sectors of human activity, it is necessary to increase crisis preparedness of the public administration for such possibility. It is necessary to map the capabilities of all entities for the crisis management purposes and to check their ability to respond to the situation for the purpose of the operational processing of crisis managements plans in the crisis preparedness phase. Checking the ability to respond is carried out using risk analysis, processing planning documentation and subsequently carrying out exercises of responsible crisis management authorities. Working groups have been set up to analyze impacts on the life and health of the population, its property and environment with regards to ensure the functionality of all key stakeholders as a part of the Blackout 2017 exercise preparation in the selected region of the Czech Republic. The article focuses on the results obtained by a working communication group, with the emphasize put on providing communication between responsible authorities and providing information to the population about the situation development. Article puts emphasizes on the analysis of the mobile networks functionality as the most widely used communication and information tool.