The Work Environment Act

Complaints against decisions made in compliance with the working environment Act by the WEA may be brou t before a working environment appeal board. These boarck include representatives of the social partners. The inspection of enterprises is integrated into four regional Inspection Centres, each with approximately 100 employees. The inspectors of the local units of the Work Environment Service are responsible for carrying out inspection. 

Internal control Concerns about the efficacy of the system led to further changes in the Work Environment Act with the introduction of internal control in an ordinance (AFS, 1992) originating from 1991. Intemal control (IC) duties of employee included, among other things, requirements to ... 

Recent structural reforms of the regulatory authority. In 2001 the National Board for Occupational Health and Safety and the regionally structured Labour In ectorate merged to form a central Work iviroiiment Authority. Since then, efforts have been made to standardise its approaches within ten regions in which some 500 staff cover the 5.3 million people engaged in work and related activities that are embraced in the Work Environment Act in the whole country. 

I The same goes for the Safety Representative s right to halt operations that he considers pose an immediate danger to life and health of employees ref. the Working Environment Act Sect. 6-3. 

Similar provisions are not contained in the pollution act, the working environment act or in the products control act, but all of them provide legal basis for issuing regulations requiring internal control systems to be implemented. 

Section 45 of the Petroleum Activities Act in 1985. While the petroleum industry and the fire and explosion prevention legislation included the worker s physical environment in the concept of safety, the Working Environment Act used the broader concept of working environment" (NOU 1987 loA, p. 10). 

According to Section 2-3 of the Working Environment Act and Section 25 of the Fire and Explosion Protection Act (in Norwegian only), the employees have a duty to contribute. ... 

The Working Environment Act contains several provisions which deal specifically with training both of the company s chief executive and for legally required safety and environmental work. + Statutory requirements on the primary level of legislation (act level) are further elaborated and clarified in the secondary level of... 

Section 3, subsection 5 of the Working Environment Act on the employer s obligation to undergo training in safety, health and environmental work ... 

Safety and working environment training pursuant to the Working Environment Act... 

The Working Environment Act establishes a legal framework for tripartite collaboration... 

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