To avoid being people unable to return home

It is important to prepare in the event that a disaster occurs on the go and it becomes difficult to return home. Prepare necessary supplies in preparation for returning home on foot or temporarily evacuating.

・When you go out, carry a map, portable radio, and mobile phone charger.
・Make sure you have sneakers, flashlights, gloves, drinking water, etc. that are easy to walk at work.
・Avoid confusion and be prepared to stay at work so that you can return home the next day or later.
・Let's decide the method and meeting place for safety confirmation on a regular basis.
・Take measures to prevent your home earthquake resistance and furniture from falling, etc., and reduce the cause of damage to your home or injury to your family in advance.
・people unable to return home Manual in the event of a major earthquake This is a pocket-sized manual containing information on preparations for a major earthquake, safety confirmation after the occurrence, information on temporary accommodation facilities, and returning home on foot. Create according to the description (how to make) and carry it in a regular insert.

Yokohama City people unable to return home Manual (PDF: 4,275KB)

In order for employees to return home safely, go to work, and ensure the continuity of work, prepare necessary supplies and determine action rules, and take measures in advance.

・Strive to stock up on food, drinking water, portable toilets, blankets, etc. so that employees can stay at the office for a certain period of time.
・Let's try to create an environment where employees and others can be safely kept at offices, etc., such as building earthquake resistance, preventing the fall, falling, and moving of archives, and preventing glass from scattering.
・Make preparations such as putting drinking water and portable food in lockers, not only at the company, but also for individuals.
・If your family is safe, decide on rules so that employees can return home safely, such as waiting at the office or returning home the next day.
・If a disaster occurs while facility users and customers are staying in the office, it may be difficult to return home, so stockpiling food, drinking water, portable toilets, blankets so that such people can stay temporarily. Prepare and stay space.

Immediately after a large-scale earthquake, many people will be worried about their homes and their families, and they will start taking action to return home as soon as possible from the company, school, or on the go.
When an earthquake occurs in the Tokyo metropolitan area and many people return home all at once, there will be places on the sidewalk where only 400 m per hour, with a crowded train. If you move in such a situation, it is assumed that it is very dangerous, such as being involved in a group fall or being injured by a fire or falling object from a building, etc., so immediately after a disaster occurs, do not start moving unnecessarily. Is important.

First of all, make sure that your family and home are safe. If you can confirm your family's safety, you can wait for the situation to calm down and return home. Always decide in advance how to contact your family in the event of a disaster, and let them know that you may not be able to return home if transportation is cut off.
Immediately after a disaster occurs, it is expected that landlines and mobile phones will be difficult to connect due to concentrated calls or damage to communication stations. safety confirmation will use the services provided by each telecommunications company, such as temporary storage of voice messages, message board services that utilize mobile phone functions, and message delivery via the Internet.

A service that records and plays messages. It can also be used on mobile phones and public phones. The message is stored for 48 hours. You can also register and confirm on the web.
・NTT East "Disaster Message Dial 171" (outside site)
・NTT East’s “Broadband Message Board Web171” (external site)

Service to register and confirm safety information on mobile phones
・NTT DOCOMO "Disaster Message Board" (external site)
・au "Disaster Message Version Service" (outside site)
・Softbank "Disaster Message Version Service" (outside site)
・Y!mobile "Disaster Message Version Service" (outside site)

You can collectively search the safety information provided by disaster message boards, news organizations, and evacuation shelter (evacuation centers) by Phone number or name.
・Safety information Search "J-anpi" (external site)

Reference HP
・Recommendation of "reduce disaster damage Action" (City of Yokohama, General Affairs Bureau / Office) (PDF: 891KB)
・Disaster Prevention Metropolitan Area Network (created in nine prefectures) (outside site)