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Japan is one of the countries which has high risk of disaster. Japan also had experienced for devastated disaster in the past with large number of dead tolls. Learning from history, Japan today prepare disaster prevention to reduce that disaster risk. One of Japan efforts to prepare disaster prevention is establishing disaster prevention center in many cities, one of them is Sapporo Citizen Disaster Prevention Center.
Sapporo Citizen Disaster Prevention Center is a public facility which is freely provided and fully supported by government to gain visitors knowledge of many kind of disasters. Visitors will get experience through simulations and practical activities. That activities are including earthquake simulation, handling fire extinguisher, smoke evacuation simulation, emergency simulation, and storm simulation corner. In the earthquake simulation, visitor will try some different types of earthquake that is ever happened in Japan, such as Kobe Earthquake, Tohoku Earthquake, Sapporo Earthquake, and so on. In this simulation, visitors have to protect their heads by covering it using pillow. After earthquake is finished, other electronic appliances and gas-using instruments are have to turned off, such as gas stove, heater, and so on. Then, in the handling of fire extinguisher, visitors try to turn off flames by spirting fire extinguisher to the virtual fire. Make sure that the aim is in the base of flame to turn it down immediately. Still, the condition that is used to happened after fire is heavy smoke. So, visitors also do a smoke evacuation simulation by entering a dark building with smoke. To protect ourselves, we have to cover our nose by our clothes, avoid to talking in the smoggy condition, and walk by lowering head position because the lower position, the less smoke density. And one thing that people usually forget to do this, close the door after open it to anticipate fire not to creep to other room. In the emergency simulation, visitors learn how to use AED (Automated External Defibrillator) instrument for emergency first aid. In japan, most of buildings are installed by AED instrument, so it is important to know how to use it. Then, In Japan storm also become one of the disasters. In the storm simulation, visitors are experiencing high velocity wind, around 30 km per second. Nobody want disaster happened, but, it is better to prevent disaster before the real disaster is coming. So, for better human being, lets we learn how to prevent disaster risk. |
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Hi Rahul, hope every single disaster that is happened can make us care on how to reduce disaster risk..
Posted 31-05-2015 13:38
Hi Eco.. yeah.. learning by experiencing..
Posted 31-05-2015 13:37
Thanks Arushi, by practicing, we will get prepared on disaster situation. Even we know how to evacuate ourself during disaster, but without practicing, in panic condition it may make us forget all what should we do..
Posted 31-05-2015 13:36
Your welcome Christy,
yeah, it was so useful and gave me new knowledge. I also agree with you, because life is precious, so we have to protect human life.
Posted 31-05-2015 13:34
Prevention is better than cure. Applies in every field.
i have read about Kobe earthquake through Haruki Murakami books.
Great to know about diaster simulation. Like Japan our country Nepal is also earthquake prone area. In fact we are the suffering one of the nations worst diasters.
Such simulations should resonace in every part of the world
Great report Mukhlish ^_^
Posted 29-05-2015 02:41
Totally agreed. Prevention is always the most important! We should learn from Japan about the prevention centers. :)
Posted 28-05-2015 13:24
Thanks for sharing detailed info on Sapporo Citizen Disaster Prevention Center. Such disaster prevention centers are really needed in all cities for disaster prevention , preparedness , response and recovery. Many people lack the basic knowledge as to how to act , how to evacuate the building in case disaster strikes so such centers make much more sense to educate the public by creating simulated situations to give practical training.
Posted 27-05-2015 17:07
Thank you for the information Mukhlish! Experiencing and learning the natural disasters is really important for our survival. These days, more and more natural disasters threat our lives. We must be well informed and prepared to protect our and our loved people's lives.
Posted 27-05-2015 10:25