Campus-Wide Emergency Drill held at TUFS

November 9, 2018

On Wednesday the 7th of November, an emergency drill was held for all TUFS students and faculty. This time, a shakeout drill* and a welfare communications drill were held. In addition to this, a disaster response task force headquarters was established, the roles of each task force response team were reconfirmed, and an AED course was held for task force members.

When the emergency drill announcement rang throughout the campus, President Hirotaka Tateishi, head of the disaster response task force, and other members of said task force gathered at the task force headquarters. Under the orders of the head of the task force, each response team (general team, facility team, evacuation guide team, health aid team) did an initial response drill and reported on the present situation. An instructor was also invited from outside the university to hold an AED course.

Here at TUFS we have created a "TUFS Earthquake Response Manual" (finalized on September 13, 2016), and we regularly carry out drills to simulate responses to large-scale disasters according to this manual.

*The Shakeout earthquake drill is an earthquake drill that originated in the United States in 2008, and has recently been receiving attention in Japan as well. The drill, which is held in workplaces, schools, and the outdoors, is conducted for one minute, and the three stages of the drill are, "drop, cover, and hold on."