If you are
at home during an earthquake you can save your own and your
relatives life with having awareness about shelter taking and
performing suitable and quick reaction, therefore it is
necessary to observe following points:
-Get away from windows and
tall free-standing cabinets and objects that might fall on
you.
-You should take shelter
under the tables and desk or bed and if they move because of
earthquake’s shaking, keep firmly their legs with your hands.
-You should
also take shelter beside wall’s corners and cover your head
with your arms and move with them.
-Don’t use stairs and
elevator.
-If there
is no safe place and you are in corridor go beside a wall and
lean your head over your knees in sitting form,and cover it
with your arms and fasten you palm together in back of the
head.
Safety recommendations during an earthquake in official
buildings
During an
earthquake, if you are in department by remembering safety
educations and by their help you can try to save your own and
your cooperators life. The employees should know that in these
times:
They should have self-confidence and keep their calmness.
They should
get away from windows and files that aren’t fastened in their
places.
They must
get away from electrical supplies that might move, fall and
throw on them.
They should get away from
flammable and dangerous supplies.
They shouldn’t rush toward
public and exits.
They shouldn’t use stairs
and elevator.
Also, they
should take shelter quickly at safe places of building such as
door’s frame and under working table.
Safety recommendations duing an earthquake at
schools
If you are at schools and at education center during an
earthquake, perform the best and the most suitable reactions
as soon as possible, with keeping calmness and applying safety
recommendations.
-Before
everything keep calm, the fear and harror reduce your
quickness and honestly, then do the safety points with
self-confidence. Also invite others to calmness and doing
these points.
-As soon as
you feel earthquake’s occurring, as much as possible if you
are in single-story building and close to the exit door, exit
and go leave the building outside immediately (the building).
-If during
an earthquake you are in high-rise building don’t try to go
out from it by using stairs and elevators.
- In class,
whereas all people can not go out from exits together and at
the same time, even by rushing toward doors people may damage
each other. So, you should select safe place inside building
and take shelter there until the shaking stops, and for
selecting safety points follow below directions.
- Get away
from windows and French doors
-Get away from
objects that might fall and throw on you
-Under the
table is safe place for shelter taking, take shelter under
your desk in class and keep firmly the legs of table with
hands, and prevent from its moving. The middle of door’s frame
is a suitable place for taking shelter taking, take the door’s
frame firmly with one hand and with other one, be careful for
being closed of the doors if you have not access to desk or
door’s frame and you are in the place like corridor get away
from objects that might fall on you, go near the wall or sit
beside it lean your head over your knees and cover it with
your arms and fasten your palms to each other in back of your
head.
-If you are
in library, laboratory and workshops and you couldn’t exit
because of the crowd in front of the door, get away from
shelves and find a shelter.
-If you
were in the stairway during an earthquake, don’t run up and
down, sit and cover your head and neck with your hands.
-If you are at
school’s yard take distance from building, wall, land’s
speculation masts and basket in Basketball play.
(Source:
IIEES website)
