2018 Campus Safety Workshop

2nd Workshop on Building Disaster Resistant Universities

~Is Your University Ready for the next Natural Disaster?~

3-5 April 2018 at Tohoku University in Japan

A special workshop focusing on preparedness for natural disasters was organized again at Tohoku University in Japan under the APRU Multi-Hazards Program. 21 participants attended including faculty members and staff from 12 universities and institutions in Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, Spain and Taiwan.

This workshop aimed to share experience of disaster preparedness on campus and identify challenges and issues, discuss how to strengthen their current management plan, and focus on various aspects of disaster management on campus – chemical, pandemic and natural hazards.

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Major Objectives

Learn from the campus safety procedure of other universities
Share common challenges, experiences, and successes
Discuss how to strengthen the current disaster management plan and minimum checklists
Develop a minimum checklist for campus safety

DAY 1: 3 April 2018

OPENING: Opening Remarks by Prof. Fumihiko Imamura
(Director, IRIDeS, Tohoku University)

PRESENTATION

Summary of the last workshop and agenda of the workshop/APRU Multi-Hazards program
(Dr. Takako Izumi, IRIDeS)
Case study 1: Tohoku University
(Prof. Hiroaki Maruya, IRIDeS)
Case study 2: University of Indonesia
(Prof. Fatma Lestari)
Case study 3: Technologico de Monterrey
(Prof. Patricia Torres Sánchez & Mr. Arturo Perez Rivera)
(Prof. Fernando Juan Ramos Galino, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya)
Case study 4: Sichuan University
(Dr. Bingwei Tian)
Case study 5: National University of Singapore
(Mr. Mohammad Fazulee Bin Abdul Rahman)
Case study 6: Tsinghua University
(Prof. Hui Zhang)
Case study 7: National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR)
(Dr. Chia-Ying Lin)
Case study 8: University of Philippines Baguio
(Prof. Jessica K. Carinõ)
Case study 9: The University of Sydney
(Mr. Kevin Duffy)

“Printing and copying are restricted”

GROUP ACTIVITY 1

Group work 1: 1) sharing response experience (what worked and what did not) and 2) what are the major issues and challenges in strengthening the preparedness capacity?

DAY 2: 4 April 2018

Group presentation and Plenary Discussion: 1) How can we overcome the challenges/what are needed to be done? and 2) Disaster preparedness minimum checklist

GROUP ACTIVITY 2

Group work 2: Developing a minimum checklist for campus safety Group presentation and Plenary Discussion