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Skäligt brandskydd på hotell- en problemidentifiering

Grunnesjö, Erik and Larsson, Miranda (2011) In LUTVDG/TVBB--5366--SE VBR920 20111
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Risk Management and Safety Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.)
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Abstract (Swedish)
Hotel fires in Sweden are a precarious issue since hotel guests are sleeping in unfamiliar
surroundings and that the new legislation in 2004 clarified the owners’ responsibility for the safety
of their guests. In 2004, two people were killed in a hotel fire and the owner was subsequently
sentenced for unwillingly manslaughter. With an entirely qualitative approach, this analysis
investigates how laws, authorities, and other stakeholders create the conditions for hotel owners to
fulfill their legislative demands. This report aims to argue that these conditions are inadequate due
to vague wording in the law together with the fact that responsible authorities have refrain to make
an interpretation of the law. A contributing factor to... (More)
Hotel fires in Sweden are a precarious issue since hotel guests are sleeping in unfamiliar
surroundings and that the new legislation in 2004 clarified the owners’ responsibility for the safety
of their guests. In 2004, two people were killed in a hotel fire and the owner was subsequently
sentenced for unwillingly manslaughter. With an entirely qualitative approach, this analysis
investigates how laws, authorities, and other stakeholders create the conditions for hotel owners to
fulfill their legislative demands. This report aims to argue that these conditions are inadequate due
to vague wording in the law together with the fact that responsible authorities have refrain to make
an interpretation of the law. A contributing factor to this problem is that the system has evolved
without clear and common objectives of authorities and politicians. One of the conclusions
presented in this report is how this leads to uncertainty for the individual hotel owner on whether
the level of fire protection is adequate, which in turn might result in legal problems without definite
solutions. (Less)
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author
Grunnesjö, Erik and Larsson, Miranda
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Reasonable fire protection in hotels- a problem identification
course
VBR920 20111
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Skäligt brandskydd, hotell, mjukisprotokoll, myndighetsutövning, lag om skydd mot olyckor, oaktsamhet. Reasonable fire protection, hotels, exercise of authority, carelessness, the Civil Protection Act.
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB--5366--SE
report number
5366
ISSN
1402-3504
language
Swedish
id
1988377
date added to LUP
2011-06-28 11:33:34
date last changed
2020-12-03 14:26:07
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  abstract     = {{Hotel fires in Sweden are a precarious issue since hotel guests are sleeping in unfamiliar
surroundings and that the new legislation in 2004 clarified the owners’ responsibility for the safety
of their guests. In 2004, two people were killed in a hotel fire and the owner was subsequently
sentenced for unwillingly manslaughter. With an entirely qualitative approach, this analysis
investigates how laws, authorities, and other stakeholders create the conditions for hotel owners to
fulfill their legislative demands. This report aims to argue that these conditions are inadequate due
to vague wording in the law together with the fact that responsible authorities have refrain to make
an interpretation of the law. A contributing factor to this problem is that the system has evolved
without clear and common objectives of authorities and politicians. One of the conclusions
presented in this report is how this leads to uncertainty for the individual hotel owner on whether
the level of fire protection is adequate, which in turn might result in legal problems without definite
solutions.}},
  author       = {{Grunnesjö, Erik and Larsson, Miranda}},
  issn         = {{1402-3504}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB--5366--SE}},
  title        = {{Skäligt brandskydd på hotell- en problemidentifiering}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}