Skäligt brandskydd på hotell- en problemidentifiering

Sammanfattning: 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.