The most central regulations offshore and onshore are the HSE regulations and the new working environment regulations.
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THE HSE REGULATIONS
Regulations relating to
- health, safety and the environment in the petroleum activities and at certain onshore facilities (Framework HSE)
- management and the duty to provide information in the petroleum activities and at certain onshore land facilities (Management)
- design and outfitting of facilities (Facilities)
- conducting petroleum activities (Activities)
- technical and operational matters at onshore facilities in the petroleum activities, etc. (Technical and Operational)
The HSE regulations have adopted parts of or complete regulations issued by other Norwegian authorities, also. Such adoption is evident from the requirements in the HSE regulations.
In certain cases, the guidelines to the HSE regulations recommend parts of or complete regulations issued by other Norwegian authorities, as norms, to fulfill requirements in the HSE regulations. Such recommendations are evident from the guidelines.
In addition, some other regulations relating to HSE, are also applicable by virtue of their scope.
These regulations, plus regulations that have been adopted or recommended as norms, are given in the list of references in the guidelines to the HSE regulations. The reference lists contain links, see
- Reference list guidelines management regulations
- Reference list guidelines facilities regulations
- Reference list guidelines activities regulations
- Reference list guidelines technical and operational regulations
THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT REGULATIONS
The new working environment regulations apply directly to the petroleum activities,with the specifications and limitations given in the regulations.
Regulations relating to
- organisation, management and participation(in Norwegian only)
- design and layout of work places and work premises(the work place regulations) (in Norwegian only)
- administrative arrangements in the area of the working environment act(regulations relating to administrative arrangements) (in Norwegian only)
- action values and threshold values for physical and chemical factors in the working environment, plus danger-of-infection risk groups with respect to biological factors (regulations relating to action and threshold values) (in Norwegian only)
- conduct of work, use of work equipment and appurtenant technical requirements(regulations relating to conduct of work) (in Norwegian only)
- construction, design and production of work equipment that are not covered by the machinery regulations (the producer regulations) (in Norwegian only)
Other regulations applicable to our area of responsibility
Offshore and/or onshore
Regulations relating to
- Act relating to petroleum activities (the petroleum regulations)
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the permission to charge fees and sector fees for supervision and other following up of working environment and safety in the petroleum activities (in Norwegian only)
- general application of wage agreement for construction sites in Norway (in Norwegian only)
- general application of wage agreement for cleaning companies (in Norwegian only)
- information and see to it duty and right of access (in Norwegian only)
- undertakings whose object is to hire out labour (in Norwegian only)
- posted workers (in Norwegian only)
- identity cards (ID cards at construction and building sites) (in Norwegian only)
Offshore – regulations relating to prohibition against anchoring and fishing
Regulations relating to the
- Balder field
- Draugen field
- Ekofisk area
- Gullfaks A
- Gullfaks A og B
- Heidrun field
- Njord field
- Norne field
- Snorre subsea installation
- Statfjord area
- Statfjord B
- Statfjord C
- Troll B platform
- Åsgard field
On Svalbard
Regulations relating to