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Urban Safety and Security Research Institute
The Urban Safety and Security Research Institute was founded in 2000, reorganized from the previous Disaster Prevention Engineering Center that had been operating since 1996. The main research areas include a wide range of work on urban fire and disaster prevention, including research on ground and earthquake resistance techniques. The institute is also responsible for establishing and utilizing a comprehensive risk-based emergency management program of disaster phases, emergency systems for various urban disasters, and applying a disaster information database.
Research and Activity
- Research in metropolitan fire prevention systems
- Management and maintenance of Fire Prevention Information System BPR/ISP
- Evaluation of disaster prevention capabilities for architectural structures and complexes
- Research in urban risk management policies, earthquake resistance technologies, disaster prevention systems, emergency action systems, and fire investigation qualifications
- Urban disaster prevention training and development of training techniques
- Development of disaster information systems, emergency simulation programs, and community training programs
