PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway is divided into six disciplines:
- Drilling and well technology
- Process integrity
- Structural integrity
- Logistics and emergency preparedness
- Occupational health and safety
- HSE management
Each area is headed by a discipline leader who is responsible for quality, personnel, expertise development and resource management.
SUPERVISION
Supervision is organised in six main groups.
Each of these has a supervision coordinator with product responsibility and formal power of decisions.
The players also have their own contacts.
LEGAL AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
The PSA’s lawyers firstly contribute to safeguarding the legal quality of regulations, orders and other products where the formal basis must be clear and unambiguous. This is important, for instance to ensure equal treatment of the players in the industry.
COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The discipline environment reports to senior management and is responsible for media relations, operating the PSA’s website and preparing printed publications, among other things. The department also answers general questions from the audience.
INTERNAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT
The department is responsible for internal operations and organisational development and consists of important support functions within finances, HR, archive function and ICT, in addition to a designated technical library for employees. ..
EU/EEA
The work on following up the EU/EEA area takes place in close cooperation nationally and internationally with authorities and key players. Read more
