This Annual Railway Safety Report 2021 of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom describes the status of railway safety in Finland in 2021. The report also discusses key points related to Traficom's activities concerning rail transport authorisations, supervision and regulation in 2021. The Annual Railway Safety Report is Traficom’s annual report on railways referred to in section 17 of the Rail Transport Act (1302/2018). Under the Rail Transport Act, Traficom must each year prepare a report on its operations and the development of railway safety in Finland in the previous year and submit the report to the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) by the end of September. The report is also submitted to the Ministry of Transport and Communications and published on Traficom’s website. The main sources of the safety information presented in this report include the safety reports of infrastructure managers and railway operators, railway operators’ accident and incident reports, and the Safety Investigation Authority’s accident investigation reports. Information on Traficom's operations has been gathered by interviewing its public officials and reviewing documents relevant to its operations.
The structure of the Annual Railway Safety Report follows the latest version of ERA's reporting guidelines issued in April 2020. The information in Annex 1 has been reported in accordance with the 2022 template