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The purpose of this report is to examine if social risks are an urban phenomenon or if it also occurs in smaller Swedish communities. Therefore, events in two small municipals were analyzed. The report also aims to examine if risk and vulnerability analysis is an appropriate tool for smaller municipals to work with social risks. The analysis shows that social risks are present also in smaller municipals and that they therefore should consider these in order to increase community safety. Further, the analysis shows that risk and vulnerability analyzes are partly a suitable tool for smaller municipals to work with social risks.

In order to examine the evacuation conditions in the case of fire at Gekås Ullared AB, a fire safety evaluation has been conducted. Gekås is Scandinavia’s largest department store with 4,5 million visitors a year. Three different scenarios were analyzed and simulated in the programs FDS and Simulex. The time to critical conditions were compared with the total evacuation time to see if the requirements for fire safety were fulfilled. The conclusion is that some important measures have to be taken at Gekås Ullared AB to secure safe evacuation conditions. Measures that shall be taken are as follows: - The evacuation alarm shall start when two detectors activates. - Optical alarms shall be installed in restrooms. - One door, BD1, shall be restored and fitted with push bars. - One door, BD35, shall be replaced with a door opening in the escape direction and fitted with push bars. - Emergency exits where people with disabilities can evacuate shall be marked. - An investigation shall be done to address the problem with the large amount of flammable goods.