ABSTRACT
The Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRSA) is a governmental authority that works with public safety, accident prevention and riskmanagement. The authority is a result of the merging of a handful former authorities and fields of activities. The SRSA has a central role in the management of public safety, which makes it interesting to study how the authority handles different kind of safety issues andwhich principles that govern theoperation. Fewstudies havebeenperformed on how Swedish national authorities take decisions and operate. Lundgren & Sundqvist (1996) studied how the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency take decisions when handling permission and authorisation cases. Abrahamsson & Magnusson (2004) studied nine national authorities’ work with risk and vulnerability analysis (SRSA was one of the studied authorities).
