EU FIRESTAT

EU FireStat project brings together the knowledge and experience of nine different international fire safety institutions. The project will map the existing fire data collected across Member States and propose meaningful data sets to allow decisions on fire safety at Member State and at EU level... The aim of this pilot project is to analyse the terminology used and the data collected by the Member States regarding building fires. This will identify the collection difficulties and interpretation differences and propose a common terminology and a method to collect the necessary data... Examples of questions Investigated in Tasks 1 & 2 Existing fire statistics are important, but… - Who collects fire incident information? - Which fields are collected in each country? - Is there a glossary or guide that defines each field? - Which data do regulators need for improving fire safety?