Purpose, scope and target group of the Annual Railway Safety Report This Annual Railway Safety Report by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom (hereinafter Safety Report) describes the status of railway safety in Finland in 2024. The Annual Railway Safety Report additionally describes the central issues of Traficom’s permit, supervisory and regulatory activities related to railways in 2024. 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 Safety 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 undertakings, railway operators’ accident and incident reports, and the Safety Investigation Authority’s accident investigation reports. Information on Traficom's operations has been gathered from its public officials and by 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.