Saga Prefecture Manuals

Saga Prefecture Guidelines for Formulating Disaster Support Manuals for People Requiring Assistance

This document is a planning guideline issued by Saga Prefecture (February 2005) for municipalities that are drafting their own manuals for supporting people who need help during a disaster. It explains the purpose of the guideline and its role as a drafting aid, then describes who is covered: elderly people living alone, bedridden or with dementia, persons with physical, intellectual or mental disabilities, autistic persons, patients with intractable diseases or on dialysis, and infants.

The main body covers advance measures such as identifying the people concerned and managing their information, setting up information transmission and evacuation guidance systems with neighborhood associations, welfare commissioners, volunteers and welfare facilities, drawing up evacuation support plans, preparing shelters and welfare shelters, and raising disaster awareness. It continues with emergency response measures and with support for persons with mental disabilities and for patients with intractable diseases or on dialysis, and ends with reference materials including a sample support plan and a questionnaire survey. This manual is written in Japanese.

Covers: Purpose of the Guideline and Its Character · Overview of People Requiring Assistance in Disasters · Advance Measures for Disaster Preparedness · Building an Information Transmission System · Building an Evacuation Guidance System · Formulating an Evacuation Support Plan