Following a powerful earthquake on Monday, quite a few colleges in Jamaica discovered it essential to provoke their earthquake security procedures.
Jamaica Academics’ Affiliation (JTA) President Leighton Johnson instructed Radio Jamaica Information that the majority colleges had been compelled to activate their earthquake drill.
“As academic establishments, part of our security and safety mandate is that college students and employees – academics, tutorial, administrative, and ancillary employees – ought to concentrate on what to do and how one can react within the occasion of an eventuality comparable to an earthquake, and so they have indicated that in lots of regards, they had been capable of activate lots of the security mechanisms pertaining to earthquakes and perform a drill,” he mentioned.
A name for complete audits
He famous that some colleges have skilled a number of earthquakes in current instances and that there are features of their buildings which have been compromised.
He added that this requires the Ministry of Schooling to do a “full infrastructural audit of the establishments to make sure that as finest as doable, the establishments are protected for educating and studying for our college students and our academics to exist in these environments.”
He additional mentioned that faculty directors should conduct an evaluation for doable infrastructure harm and file a report back to the Ministry of Schooling.
