In order to make use of the lessons learned from Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, where many children and faculty members were killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake, the expert council established by the prefecture included the preparation of disaster prevention manuals in preparation for unexpected disasters. I have compiled a report.
The Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education has confirmed that Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, which killed 84 children and faculty members in the tsunami, admitted that disaster prevention measures were inadequate in a trial filed by some of the bereaved families. In response to this, in February of this year, we set up a meeting of experts.
The report of this meeting was put together and presented at a prefectural assembly committee meeting on the 14th.
In the report, as specific efforts,
▽ to prepare multiple evacuation sites and evacuation routes in preparation for
unexpected
disasters in disaster prevention manuals, etc., to conduct training, and
▽ experience to improve the crisis response ability of faculty
and
staff. We are requesting that you conduct type training.
It also includes
▽ creating a disaster prevention map in collaboration with local residents and
▽ having children create their own evacuation plans.
The prefectural board of education will inform schools in the prefecture of the contents of the report and encourage them to utilize it for disaster prevention measures.
The prefectural board of education
A complete report in the 10 years since the earthquake struck.
Under the control of the school, the prefectural board of education and Ishinomaki City have not been able to apply the lessons learned from Okawa Elementary School, which was the most damaged by the earthquake.
<< Supplementary reader >> The
Ishinomaki City Board of Education has completely revised the supplementary reader used in disaster prevention education this year for the first time since 2012.
We distributed it to all elementary and junior high schools in the city.
However, there is no mention of the local Okawa Elementary School.
<< Training for principals >> It
was last month that a concrete move came out.
This year, training for newly appointed principals at schools in the prefecture was held at Okawa Elementary School.
The prefectural board of education conducted training for faculty and staff locally for the first time in response to the decision of a trial brought by some of the bereaved families.
90 principals participated and listened to the story of Toshiro Sato, a former teacher who lost his daughter who was a sixth grader at Okawa Elementary School, and Shinichiro Hiratsuka, the current principal of a junior high school.
Mr. Sato said, "Instead of closing the lid on that day, facing each other firmly and imagining what kind of face each child evacuated will lead to disaster prevention."
According to a questionnaire conducted by the prefectural board of education to the principal, 27 people visited Okawa Elementary School for the first time in this training.
More than 90% of all participants answered that it was "very helpful".
The prefectural board of education has a policy of conducting on-site training for all newly hired faculty and staff from next year.
School disaster prevention measures Still issues
In September, the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education made disaster prevention efforts for all 488 schools and municipal boards of education, including elementary and junior high schools and high schools in the prefecture, except Sendai City, in order to help discuss the meeting of experts. I conducted a hearing survey.
According to this, about
45% of
school disaster prevention manuals are
prepared
assuming secondary disasters such as fires caused by earthquakes, which is less than half of the total, and
▽ in preparation for disasters that exceed expectations. 65% set up multiple evacuation sites and evacuation routes.
In addition, based
on the lessons learned from Okawa Elementary School at the time of the earthquake
,
50.4% of the respondents conducted training to ensure the safety of their children, assuming that managers and disaster prevention personnel are absent.
The prefectural board of education will promote improvement based on this report.