Fire statistics in Europe 5th INFORMAL ROUNDTABLE European Fire Prevention and Catastrophe...

Fire statistics in Europe

5th INFORMAL ROUNDTABLEEuropean Fire Prevention

and Catastrophe Management

Lieutenant-colonel Pascal LEPRINCE

Adviser of the president - French burns' victims association (ABF) Commander of the East division – Yvelines Fire Brigade : SDIS 78

The situation in Europe

The best practise : Road safety

The CARE database

EFA opportunity


There is no official European

database on fire incidents. .


In order to attempt to understand the scale of the problem and the deaths, injuries and cost consequences of electrical fires in Europe, the partners to the FEEDS forum, and their member organisations throughout Europe, collected the published national fire statistics in 2004(30 reports from 10 countries Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA). In addition, fire statistics published at municipal level (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Munich, Paris) were checked. Other statistics were collected from the Geneva Association’s world-wide

fire statistics programme. FEEDS : Forum for European Electrical Domestic Safety

.

Incidence of domestic fires

Based on the demographic model, we can estimate, for Europe

• Per 1 000 dwellings, about 3.2 fires in dwellings are reported by the fire services each year.

• Over 60% of reported building fires occur in the domestic sector.

It is estimated that only about 25% of fires are actually reported, sothe total number of fires is four times higher than that reported,meaning that 60% of EU citizens are exposed to a fire during theirlifetime.

Extrapolating the number of fires per 1 000 dwellings gives thetotal reported fires as 620 000 in EU-25.

Costs

The best fire data available comes from the UK and the USA. Using this data property loss and the total cost to society can be estimated.

The average total cost to society per domestic fire is € 32 000including the cost of injuries,intervention, fire prevention and Insurance administration and the direct property loss per reported domestic fire is estimated at an average € 8 000 (UK).

Extrapolating these figures and using the data in Table 4 the total cost of domestic fires is €17 billion for EU-25.

The direct property loss for domestic fires is estimated to be €3.8 billion in EU-25, excluding the property loss from non-reported fires.

Fire deaths and injuries

61% of the casualties due to fire and 81% of the injuries

occur in residential dwellings (based on the 1999 UK figures).

Dwellings are therefore a major attention area in all fire prevention programmes.

In Europe, there are about, on average, 7 fire deaths/million citizens (Table 5)

which means that about 1 in 200 fires in dwellings results in a fatality.

Approximately 1 in 14 dwelling fires results in an injury, though it should be noted

that the definition of 'injured' seems to differ widely across Europe.

Based on these calculations there are about 3 250 domestic fire deaths

and 45 000 injuries each year in EU-25.

Although 10 to 20% of fires have an electrical cause, they result in a

disproportionate amount of the associated injuries (20 to 30%).

Major information

There is no official European database on fire incidents.

60% of EU citizens are exposed to a fire during their lifetime

Dwellings are therefore a major attention area in all fireprevention programmes.

The definition of 'injured' seems to differ widely across Europe.

The total cost of domestic fires is €17 billion for EU-25.

Based on these calculations there are about 3 250 domesticfire deaths and 45 000 injuries each year in EU-25.

The best practise : Road safety

The common target for 2010 is to save

25 000 lives on European lives.

In its 2001 White Paper on a European transport policy the Commission has proposed the ambitious goal of halving the number of deaths on our roads by 2010. The European Parliament and the Member States in the Council support this goal.

These graphics show the situation in 2006 (2005 when data from 2006 not available) and the progress made since 2001. Its purpose is to allow Member States to compare their situation and to encourage them to continue their efforts regarding road safety.

Sources: CARE (Community database on road accidents), Eurostat, national publications.

The CARE Database

Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe

Road traffic accidents in the Member States of the European Union annually claim about 43.000 lives and leave more than 1.8 million people injured, representing estimated costs of 160 billion euros. Since 1984, a large number of measures to reduce road accidents have been taken at a regional level. Along with these measures, the Council adopted a Decision on 30 November 1993 on the creation of a Community database on road accidents (93/704/EC)1, the CARE project.

The different phase since 20 years

The first phase of the project (1988 - 1993) consisted of a feasibility study for the creation of CARE database which led to a positive result and thus, to the European Council decision of December 1993 for the creation of a disaggregate road accident database.

The second phase of the project (1993 - 1996) concerned the pilot operation of the CARE database , during which, CARE had to deal with all operational problems and be ready for an overall evaluation. The positive results of this evaluation opened the way for the further development of CARE into an integrated information system.

The third phase of the project (1996 -1999) concerned the harmonisation of the data contained inside the database allowing for international comparisons and exchange of experience. On this purpose, the compatibility of a number of data variables and values have been thoroughly examined and a set of 38 variables containing 488 common-definition values has been proposed.

The fourth phase of the project (1999 - today) concerns the full operation of the system.

During the fifth phase of the project (2005 - today), data from the Members States that joined the European Union in May 2004 and January 2007 plus Norway and Switzerland will be integrated in the database.

Road safety in Europe Maria Teresa SANZ VILLEGAS

Road Transport Policy in the EU

• White Paper on transport policy (2001): mid-term review adopted on 22nd of June 2006

• Road safety action program (2003):

“A shared responsibility”

Numerous stakeholders

Public: EU level + Central Governments + Local Authorities

Private: Car industry + Transport companies …

Everybody: all users !

Shared responsibility “subsidiarity”

Action by ALL stakeholders is needed

The EU level acts wherever it provides an added value

Road SafetyThe EU instruments

Legislation

Best practice guidelines

Research and studies

Financial support to projects

Road accident data and information

The Road Safety Charter

Domains of action

• User behaviour• Campaigns• Enforcement• Education• Driving licences

• Vehicle safety

• Passive and active safety • Technical inspection

• Road Infrastructure safety

• European Road Safety Charter

• Observatory (incl. accident data)

The EU Road Safety Observatory

Mission:

Collect, analyse and disseminate road safety data and knowledge

A “light” form of a road safety agency

Internal Commission structure


A comprehensive web site including… Accident data with various levels of detail

circumstances causes consequences

Risk exposure data Road safety performance indicators Framework for independent accident investigation Knowledge

Results of research, studies & other projects, both from the Commission’s and from Countries’ various stakeholders

The “-50%” objective


Evolution 1990 - 2010EU fatalities

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46.300

42.900

36.700

34.000

31.50029.200

27.00025.000

70.900 70.300

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61.30059.600 59.000

55.50056.400

55.20054.100

52.20050.400 49.800

46.700

43.50041.300

38.400

39.700

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010Source: - CARE (EU road accidents database) - National data

2010 objective : 25.000 lives to save

EU25 fatalities


The CARE data base is an initiative of the EU member states

Council Decision 93/704/EC on the creation of a Community database on road accidents.

CARE database

The EU Road Safety ObservatoryCARE database

identify and quantify road safety problems

evaluate the efficiency of road safety measures

determine the relevance of Community actions

facilitate the exchange of experience in this field.

Objectives


Process

national data ( ME ) data collection Uploading Transformation rules ( if necessary ) Common variables creation Verification with national publications


ACCESS Complete database (national administrations)

Reports and statistics (Public access) Europa

(http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety/road_safety_observatory/care_en.htm)


Data confidentiality and security reports produced by the system are always aggregated

the ME are requested to black out confidential data fields before send data

A CARE user must have a valid user/password

All measures have been taken guarantee the confidentiality, security and integrity


Data structure

Basic definitions Accident Person killed, injured ...

Common variables 43 variables ( on production since December 2005 ) Third study - socio-economics variables ( near

future )


Common Variables Country Time ( year, month, hour ) Age group Gender Person class ( driver, passenger , pedestrian ) Area type ( inside or outside urban ) Motorway Junction type Vehicle Weather conditions Lighting ...


Common Variables Region Vehicle age Driving licence age Road surface condition Speed limit Alcohol test Psychophysical circumstances Junction control …..


Risk exposure variables

Traffics: vehicles x km travelled by type of road networks

The population’s pyramids The drivers' population The fleet of vehicles ….

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Source: CARE (EU road accidents database)2001 2006 EU 2006 EU 2001


PEOPLE AGED 18-25 KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENTS, FOR EACH HOUR AND DAY OF THE WEEK EU 15 (2002)

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Lundi Mardi Mercredi Jeudi Vendredi Samedi DimancheSource: CARE (EU road accidents database


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Francia España Reino UnidoSource: CARE (EU road accidents database)


EU accidentsinside/outside urban area

outside33%

inside67%

EU fatalitiesinside/outside urban area

inside32%

outside68%

CARE database

% pedestrian fatalities/ totalby country

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Source: CARE (EU road accidents database)

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Pedestrian fatalities inside urban area by age and gender

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Pedestrian fatalities by population inside urban area by age and gender

CARE database

Roadsafety Website:

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety/road_safety_observatory/introduction_en.htm


EFA Opportunity

Organise a specific EFA database with 4 or 5 fire department like

a best practise

Stimulate and impulse with the DG SANCO the same approach like the road safety

Listen to us for

your own safety !!!

“A shared responsibility”

Numerous stakeholders

Public: EU level + Central Governments + Local Authorities

Private: Industry + Technologies partners …

Everybody: all users !

Shared responsibility “subsidiarity”

Action by ALL stakeholders is needed

The EU level acts wherever it provides an added value

Fire SafetyThe EU instruments

Legislation

Best practice guidelines

Research and studies

Financial support to projects

Domestics fire data and information

The Fire Safety Charter

Domains of action

• User behaviour

• Campaigns

• Enforcement

• Education

• Dwellings safety

• Passive and active safety (infrastructure and equipment)

• Technical inspection

• European Fire Safety Charter

• Observatory (incl. fire data)

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