23rd Congress of the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE),

13th -16th October, 2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina

JAPAN PANEL, 14th OCTOBER, 2014

Tools of Business Continuity Plan for Hospitals suffered from

Recent Devastating Disasters in Japan
:KOSAKA Osamu 1, TAGUCHI Shigehiro 2
1

Japan Facility Management Association /

Healthcare & Educational Facilities Dept., TAKENAKA Corp. Japan

2

Japan Facility Management Association /

Living Environment Design Dept., MITSUBISHI Jisho Sekkei Inc. Japan

1 kousaka.osamu@takenaka.co.jp
2 shigehiro.taguchi@mj-sekkei.com

Japan has been suffered from devastating earthquake for many years
in the past. Especially a couple of recent big earthquakes attacking to
Kobe area (Hanshin Awaji Earthquake) in January 17, 1995 and attacking
to North East Coast of Japanese archipelago (Great East Japan
Earthquake) in March 11, 2011 influenced a great deal to recognize the
importance of disaster mitigation of suffered areas. The paper aims at
outlining these two earthquakes in terms of continuing hospital function
during and after disasters and proposing effective tools of Business
Continuity Plan (BCP) for hospitals. Inter-alia, after the Great East Japan
Earthquake, increasing attentions has been paid to Hospital BCP, and
recognized as one of the most important subjects for hospital
management. As the result, utilizing Facility Management (FM) tools to
examine medical activities of actual hospitals experienced disasters,
check points for hospitals resistant ability to disasters can be proposed
and to measure these FM tools during ordinary times is the key to
ensuring medical functional continuity for the surrounding hospital
districts.
AUTHORS BIOGRAPHY
Born 1950 in Kyoto prefecture, Japan; joined Takenaka Co., Ltd. in 1973, Japan Facility Management
Association. in 2001, and is currently Chief of the Healthcare Facility Management Research Group. Extensive

supervisory design experience in creating medical facilities such as clinics and hospitals, campus facilities
such as universities and institutes. Occasioned by the advent of the Great East Japan Earthquake, has been
engaged since 2011 in research on facility management tools for business continuity planning for hospitals.
Certified Facility Manager Japan.Architect. Member of Architectural Institute of Japan (JIA)