Topics Support for Development of the Personnel of Regional Development
Bureaus Who Engage in Advanced Measures for Sediment-related
Disasters
UCHIDA Taro, Senior Researcher; KANBARA Junichi, Head; KAMIYAMA Joko, Researcher
Erosion and Sediment Control Division, Research Center for Disaster Management
Keywords: sediment-related disasters, Sediment-related Disaster Prevention Law, emergency investigation
1.

Start of a human resource development
support program
In accordance with revisions to the Sediment-related
Disaster Prevention Law, etc., the roles played in crisis
management and early restoration of damaged areas inthe case of a large-scale sediment-related disaster by thepersonnel of Regional Development Bureaus areincreasing. NILIM, with the cooperation of the Public
Works Research Institute, started in fiscal 2013 a humanresource development support program with an advanced
and practical menu for the personnel of Regional
Development Bureaus who are familiar with their local
circumstances. The purpose of this program is to havethem acquire, through concurrent service for theirRegional Development Bureau and NILIM, advanced
skills in emergency investigation, etc. required by theSediment-related Disaster Prevention Law in the case ofsediment-related disaster, such as landslide dam
formation or volcano eruption.
2. Contents and results of the program
During fiscal 2013, the program was held in July andNovember in the NILIM office for one week each time.
The contents included (i) discussions about the points andconsiderations for advanced technical guidance to beprovided to local governments, etc. in the case of asediment-related disaster, (ii) exercises in the latest
information and techniques concerning emergency
investigation, emergency measures, etc., and (iii) analyses
and discussions of issues and solutions for each Regional
Development Bureau regarding emergency investigations/ measures.
In addition, on-site exercise were conducted on August
28 and 29 from a site-oriented approach in areas that
suffered serious sediment-related disasters including
landslide dam formulation by the 2008 Iwate-Miyagi
Nairiku Earthquake.
The two days involved (i)inspections of the conditions after the collapse of alandslide dam, (ii) inspections of emergency measures
execution, (iii) practical measurement training in
irradiating lasers from a helicopter to an area of blockedriver channel, and (iv) an exchange of opinions with thepersonnel of the Regional Development Bureau and local
governments about the actions taken in the event ofdisaster, future issues, etc.
Furthermore, they joined actual technical support
activities of damaged prefectures, including efforts for thesediment-related disaster caused by Typhoon No. 18 in
Fukui, to acquire practical skills as a professional in
sediment-related disasters (Photo 2).
In addition, the personnel of Regional Development

Bureaus who participated in this program took theinitiative to develop, as deliverables of the fiscal 2013program, a (1) practical manual on laser measurementfrom a helicopter in emergency investigations, (2)landslide dam flood simulation manual for the personnelof Regional Development Bureaus, (3) method for setting
conditions of natural dams in emergency investigation
training, and (4) list of the construction methods selected
as emergency measures to address river channel
blockage.

Photo 1: Exercise with Flume Experimentconcerning Landslide Dam Breach andCountermeasures

Photo 2: Disaster Investigation in Fukui