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RIKEN Safety Management Division is in charge of safety management of research involving chemicals, high pressure gas, animals, microorganisms, radioactive isotopes, and the like. Our mission includes providing researchers with safety guidelines against disasters such as earthquake, as Japan is an earthquake-prone country.
An earthquake causes serious damage. Japan has the second highest number of earthquakes in the world. However, the number of buildings that collapse due to shakes in Japan is much smaller than that of other countries where earthquakes occur because all buildings in Japan constructed after 1981 have an earthquake-resistant structure or seismic isolation structure. There was no crack or damage to beamlines in RIBF when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 2011. Now, what should we do first in the case of earthquake? Safety measures against earthquake that are taken in RIKEN are introduced.
