Making old buildings with several apartments safe
Not to be implemented
Other accidents Y
Accident
25.5.2015
2015-S28
Recommendation
The Ministry of the Environment should, together with the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities and the Ministry of the Interior, establish a policy and methodology for how to identify old multiple-occupancy buildings with poor fire safety and how to bring their fire safety up to an acceptable level. Such a fire safety assessment could be targeted at, for example, wooden buildings constructed before 1960 comprising more than three flats smaller than 50 square metres in floor area.
Investigation report
Y2014-03 Fire in a wooden apartment house in Turku on 4 November 2014