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Community Initiatives for Prior Preparations
Creation of Areal Evacuation Center Operation Manuals
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, Sendai City and neighborhood associations, other local organizations, administrative offices and facilities managers came together to reevaluate the city’s current way of operating evacuation centers. From there on, the “Areal Evacuation Center Operation Manuals” is created with regards to the local characteristics of each evacuation center. While considering local characteristics, the manuals also take into account measures for women, persons with disabilities and non-Japanese residents so as to ensure that the evacuation centers can be operated while giving consideration to the diverse needs of citizens. In addition, in response to the increasingly diversifying natural hazards, manuals are also being created for operating evacuation centers in times of torrential rainfall, rupture of reservoir and so on. Moreover, in response to the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infections in evacuation centers, the “Additional Resources for COVID-19 Countermeasures”
has been developed and efforts are being directed to the investigation and implementation of infection prevention measures at evacuation centers.
InquiriesDisaster Prevention Planning Section,
Crisis Management Department
kks000120@city.sendai.jp
Comprehensive Disaster Preparedness Drills to Improve the Capacity of Residents and Communities to Respond to Disasters
Drills for Evacuation Guidance
Around the time of Citizen Disaster Preparedness Day on June 12 every year, the City implements participatory drills (shake-down training ) in places such as businesses and households, where participants practice protecting themselves by sheltering under tables, etc. Other activities include checks performed on stocks of disaster prevention supplies in households and businesses. Moreover, during disaster prevention week in early September, stranded commuter drills are held, which assume a scenario in which public transport is suspended. Additionally, around the time of World Tsunami Disaster Prevention Day on November 5, tsunami evacuation drills are held in tsunami inundation areas on the eastern coastline.
InquiriesDisaster Risk Reduction Promotion Section,
Crisis Management Department
kks000130@city.sendai.jp