He worries little guidance in malls before earthquakes

Among employees of establishments located in major malls in the capital there is concern and uncertainty due to the few forecasts and guidance to staff who have been put in place on measures to be taken in case of earthquake or any other disaster, particularly after the occurrence of several earthquakes in recent weeks in the country.

While typically these shopping centers involving large conglomerates between visitors and employees, only the building more modern caciones there are signs indicating emergency exits or advice not to take the elevator in case of fire, but in others there is no signaling.

"I think that with all these tremors that have occurred and the threats that there, already to us should give us some guidance of what we have to do, but nobody has told us nothing," confessed to an employee in the area of food from one of u000aThese establishments.

Another, who works in a square of modern construction, said to be surprised that after having happened earthquakes there has not been any simulacrum of emergency exit, because in the opening principles it was fact.

Staff working in parking service also said not having received any guidance in this regard, but that those premises are generally clear the signs of the output that is what guide who park their vehicles in the same.

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tour conducted by shopping malls located in the central part of the city and the eastern area could contact that the emergency exit signs are only visible in some of them, mostly in the first level, and that those who work in them have not received guidance or written or verbal.

Not it was possible to learn about evacuation plans designed by those centres u000atrading since being Sunday the administrative areas were closed and the staff working in the area of Security said not be authorized to provide the details.

Concern about the preparation and programmes of evacuation in an emergency which exist in schools, hospitals, shopping centers and places where many people gather have resurfaced in the country since 5 January day there have been several Earth movements, some of them with a magnitude superior to the five degrees.

El Listín Diario has published a series of works in order to provide guidance to the population.

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