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Presenter：Harumi Furukawa

Affiliation：Chief, Citizen’s Safety

Division Kagoshima City Hall

Geography and Population, etc.

• Location 130 E, 31 N

• Area 547.57km2

• Population (Estimate) 605,696 people

• Number of households

274,335 households (as of August 1, 2015)

• Establishment 126 years (Established on April 1, 1889)

• Prefectural capital, core city (1996)

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Background of Launch of Safe

Community Programs Municipal Ordinance for Promoting Safety and Security

in Kagoshima City (Established on October 4, 2005)

Disaster (wind, water, earthquake)

Traffic

accident

Suicide

Violence

Tumbling,

falling Fire

Factors to cause of injury

Challenges to eliminate factors that can threaten safety in the daily life

Environmental change

Collaboration with citizens, etc.

Identifying causes of injuries

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Aging population combined with low

birthrates

Global

warming

Population

decline

Decline in regional

potential

Globali-

zation

Trend of Society

◆introduction

No. of consultations on child abuse

No. of consultations on senior citizen abuse No. of consultations on DV etc. 4

In addition …

Relationship Diagram of Degree of

Injury and Data Suicide

statistics

Polic

e s

tatistics

Survey on accidents and injuries

Demographic

statistics

Em

erg

ency t

ransport

Situation of accidents,

etc. during school

management

Close call

Injury

◆research methods

a cross-sectional group

1. Safe Community Steering Committee 2. In

jury

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Support

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Model D

istr

icts

, etc

. Yoshino Elementary School

District

All public elementary/

jr. high schools

Yoshida Minami

Kindergarten, etc.

Kotokujidai-higashi

Neighborhood Association

Komencho Neighborhood

Association

3. C

ross-s

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sk F

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Traffic Safety

School Safety

Child Safety

Senior Citizen Safety

DV Prevention

Suicide Prevention

Disaster Prevention and

Disaster Measures

Partnership/collaboration

Part

ners

hip

/colla

bo

ration

City Hall

organization

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Support

Safe

Com

munity S

upport

Pro

motion C

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(Pre

fectu

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e)

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Riding truck and confirming blind spots Safe driving seminar in training car

Traffic safety class for business employees

Traffic safety class (night school), including DUI experience, held for parents and elementary/jr.

high teachers

◆research methods

Programs targeted for automobile

drivers

A traffic safety map was prepared, and the sites were diagnosed.

Preparation of traffic safety map

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Carrying out an on-site diagnosis of hazardous spots

The related groups, etc. in the model district have cooperated and reviewed hazardous spots.

Prepared traffic safety map

(6,000 copies prepared)

There are high levels of traffic in the Yoshino

Elementary School District. The roads are narrow

and there are areas with no sidewalks.

Use this map to understand hazardous places,

and make an effort to follow traffic safety!

Kagoshima

Special Support

School

Near intersection at special support school entrance

Japan - Land of Volcanoes

Japan is one of the world’s prominent volcano countries,

home to 110 of the world’s 1,500 active volcanoes 8

Distribution of active volcanoes and

plates in Japan North America Plate

Mt. Usu

Hokkaido

Komagatake

Eurasia Plate

Mt. Unzen

Mt. Tokachi

Mt. Iwate

Mt. Adatara

Mt. Asama

Mt. Fuji

Izu Islands

Mt. Aso

Miyake Island

Pacific

Plate

Sakurajima

Philippine Plate

Ryukyu

Trench

Material: Sakurajima Taisho Eruption 100th

Anniversary Project Committee

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Risk of Disasters from Volcano

Eruptions If Sakurajima should erupt, the entire island will be subject to a dangerous

state from pyroclastic flow, and there is a risk of extensive damage.

Material: Kagoshima City

Pyroclastic flow

From past eruptions, it is predicted that a large

amount of ash and rocks, landslides and lava flow

will occur.

Material provided by Akihiko Yokoo

Sakurajima Volcano Hazard Map

Development of Programs R

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• Understand situation of residents’ evacuation

Do not know who

has evacuated

• Establish evacuation system for people requiring assistance

Cannot evacuate by self

• Improve and strengthen evacuation drills

Yearly drills might be

deteriorat-ing

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Crisis Chal-lenge

Program Verifi-cation

Expan-sion

Goals Perform-

ance

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Ambulance transports for ages 0 to 6, and ages 65

and older -> General injuries are high

Details of general injuries -> Unknown

Emergency transport:

• Sub-division of types of general injury accidents

• Additional recording of type of place (inside home),

etc.

Ambulance Transport

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Review by Kagoshima City Fire Defense Bureau

Improving the recorded data

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Sub-division of types of general injuries and accidents, etc.

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General Injuries Until now, only were recorded

Types of general injuries and accidents Type of place Type within home, etc. Type of injury Injured memberDetails of choking,

accidental ingestion, etc.

Fall Home (residence) Entrance Brain damage Entire body Rice cake

Tumble Kindergarten, nursery school Living room Visceral injury Head Konyaku paste

Accidental ingestion/mis-swallowing Park (playground equipment) Kitchen, dining room Vascular injury, hematoma Face Meat

Contact/collision with person/object Park (not playground equipment) Stairs Nerve damage Neck Candy

Pinching/entanglement Road, sidewalk Hall Fracture Chest Legume

Animal bite, insect sting Station, bus stop, tram stop Washroom Dislocation Stomach Other food

Cut, stab with bladeCommercial facility, restaurant,

recreational facilityToilet Sprain Back Toy

Heat source, such as fire or hot water Sports facility Bath Laceration Lower back Coin

Electrocution Ocean, river Verdana Contusion Buttocks Tobacco

Chocking MountainsYard, schoolyard, school field

(playground equipment)Scrape Upper limbs Medicine

Foreign matter in eyes, ears or nose SchoolYard, schoolyard, school field

(not playground equipment)Cut Lower limbs PTP packaging sheet

Other foreign matter Nursing home Parking lot Stab Others Others

Others Workplace Classroom (Nurse’s Office) Impalement injury

Others Gym Avulsed wound

Pool Bite

Others Burn

Accidental ingestion

Poisoning

Drowning

Choking

Broken tooth

Injury to eye, ear, nose

Others

Sub-division

95 45

472

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200

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1,200

1,400

1,600

1,800

Fall

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Situation of ambulance transports

for general injury by age group

[Source] Fire Defense Department survey (City Fire Defense Department)

[Data] City, both genders, all ages, total for April 2014 to March 2015 * Partial excerpt

59

31 28

6 4

18 26

8 2

80

9

32 33

11 4

190

55

23

12 6

41

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

Tumble Collision/contact… Heat source such as fire,…

(people)

Total for ages 0 to 6

Total for ages 7 to 17

Total for ages 18 to 64

Total for ages 65 and older

(people)

1,712

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Achievements through the Safe

Community programs …

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Subdivided emergency

transport data

Strengthened system for

coordinated cooperation in

various sectors

Established Safe Community

Support Promotion Committee at

Kagoshima Prefecture Police

Headquarters

Structuring of advanced

disaster prevention measures Increase of community

resident's awareness of safety

Future Prospects

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Evaluate, verify and create a safer and more secure city

We will verify the programs with the evaluation indicators and will

promote more effective safety and security programs that match the

community’s characteristics.

Development of model district programs, etc. throughout the city

Senior Citizen Safety

School Safety

Child Safety

Traffic Safety

Disaster Prevention and

Disaster Measures

Cooperation with community councils for developing

programs city-wide

Development of programs at all public elementary

schools and jr. high schools Sequentially expanding programs to nursery schools and

kindergartens, etc. in the city

Verification of current programs and expanding to other

districts

Expanding model district programs throughout Sakurajima

◆discussions