Special Issue (Paper (In Japanese))
AN ACTUAL CONDITION SURVEY ON THE DECISION TO CLOSE A NURSERY SCHOOL IN THE EVENT OF STORM AND FLOOD DAMAGE
2020 Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages I_123-I_130
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2020 Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages I_123-I_130
Most of the nursery schools, which are employment support facilities, are open even when storm and flood damage is predicted. The reason for this is that it is the principle that the nursery school is opening, when a disaster is likely to occur. On the other hand, in recent heavy rain disasters, delay in evacuation exposed children and nursery school staff to dangerous situations in some cases. Therefore, in order to understand the actual situation that a nursery school is opening during a disaster, we conducted a quatuinnarie survey for the childcare departments of 673 municipalities with a population of 10,000 or more in 24 prefectures. Only 16% of the local governments decide to close the nursery school when the disaster risk increases. In order to improve the degree of disaster safety of nursery schools, it is necessary to form a social consensus that the nursery schools may be closed during a disaster.
