VI. General Policy Direction for Strategies in Each Field
Assuring Safety Livelihoods

Assuring Safety Livelihoods

1. Establishing Regional Crime and Disaster Prevention Networks

• The strengthening of community safety activities and the establishment of community and office crime prevention networks with the cooperation of local residents and volunteer organizations and other groups.

• The promotion of the construction of fax networks, with participation from welfare facilities and persons with disabilities living at home, to build cooperative relationships with residents and others ("fax networks" means the use of faxes at koban (police boxes) and chuzaisho (residential police boxes) to exchange information with residents and others in the area of jurisdiction).

• The promotion of the training of police officers and others capable of sign language and the establishment of "Sign Language Koban" where police officers and others capable of sign language are stationed. Also, the promotion of the wearing of "Sign Language Badges" by police officers and others performing functions such as reception at police stations and on-street activities.

• The revitalization and nurturing of independent disaster prevention organizations, raising up leaders of independent disaster prevention organizations, the development of bases for activities, the implementation of disaster evacuation drills and other measures, and the creation of support structures, based around community residents, for persons with disabilities and others vulnerable to disaster.

2. Expanding the Structure for Providing Information and Communications in Times of Emergency

• The establishment at all prefectural police headquarters of "Fax 110" numbers to accept emergency notifications by fax, and the promotion of PR activities to encourage the dissemination and utilization of these numbers.

• The development of an emergency notification system using fire detectors and one-touch communication devices (pendants) to link persons vulnerable to disasters with fire service agencies.

• The development of disaster prevention information systems sensitive to the needs of persons vulnerable to disasters, to ensure the prompt and appropriate provision of information about disasters such as floods, high tides and erosion/sediment landslides.

3. Expanding Strategies for Guiding Evacuation in Times of Disaster or Emergency

• The expansion of disaster strategies for persons with disabilities through the establishment of a structure for guiding the evacuation of persons with disabilities, and the compilation of a manual on the protection of persons with disabilities in times of disaster, incorporating areas such as the most appropriate way in which to transmit information promptly and accurately and the promulgation of said manual.

• Working through fire service agencies, the elimination of steps from evacuation routes, the construction of flashing guide poles and guide poles fitted with auditory guidance devices and similar measures in facilities used by persons with disabilities, and the establishment of cooperation structures for evacuation in times of disaster for persons vulnerable to disaster in each region.

• The establishment, together with volunteer organizations and others, of a support structure for persons with disabilities in times of disaster, and an investigation, through participation in disaster evacuation drills, into areas such as the most appropriate means of guiding evacuation.

4. Development of the Foundations for Preventing Disaster

• Erosion/sediment control measures against landslides and the slope failures, and other related measures will be carried out preponderantly in regions which have hospitals, social welfare facilities and other similar facilities located within it to prevent sediment-related disasters.

5. Distributing Knowledge about Crime Prevention and Disaster Prevention

• The promotion of measures such as instruction in areas such as crime prevention, evacuation sites in times of disaster and ways to make contact in times of emergency, through methods such as patrol visits.

• The distribution of pamphlets on disaster prevention and other measures in order to spread knowledge of disaster prevention among persons with disabilities. Also, the proliferation among ordinary residents and others of knowledge about assistance for persons with disabilities.

• The provision of local safety information to persons with visual and hearings disabilities at koban(police boxes) and chuzaisho (residential police boxes), through measures such as the compilation of mini-PR sheets in Braille and the utilization of fax networks.

6. Promoting the Development and Proliferation of Crime and Disaster Prevention Equipment and Facilities

• An investigation into the promotion of research, development and proliferation of security systems and crime and disaster prevention equipment and facilities tailored to the particular needs of persons with disabilities, among manufacturers of crime prevention equipment and security companies.

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The Government Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities
—- A SEVEN-YEAR NORMALIZATION STRATEGY —
Tentative Edition in English

Translated by
the Secretariat of the Headquarter
for Promoting the Welfare of Disabled Persons,
Prime Minister's Office

6-1, Nagatacho 1-chome,
Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, 100
JAPAN