A hotel panic button is a button that hotel employees can utilize when they find themselves in an uncomfortable, risky, or unsafe situation at work. When they push the panic button, hotel security staff will be alerted, who can then contact law enforcement officials should they deem it necessary.
Some cities and states have ordinances in place that require hotels to provide employees with panic buttons if they work in more private areas of the hotel. The hope is that implementing these panic buttons will decrease the number of sexual assaults and misconduct by hotel staff and other hotel guests.