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The most central regulations offshore and onshore
Regulations on Svalbard:
Other regulations - applicable in full or in parts offshore
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Regulations to Act relating to petroleum activities
- Safety delegates
- Generic defects
- Ionizing radiation
- Prohibited anchoring and fishing
- Refunding
- Machinery (in Norwegian only)
- Regulations relating to employers' use of approved company health services, and approval of company health services (in Norwegian only)
- Regulations relating to obligatory approved company health services in enterprises of certain branches (in Norwegian only)
- Work with computer monitors (the computer monitor regulations) (in Norwegian only)
- Welding, thermal cutting, thermal spraying, carbon arc gouging, soldering and grinding, with guidelines (in Norwegian only)
- Heavy and monotonous work (in Norwegian only)
- Protection against exposure to chemicals in the workplace (the Chemical Regulations) (in Norwegian only)
- Handling of explosives (in Norwegian only)
- Flammable goods (in Norwegian only)
- High voltage installations (in Norwegian only)
- Low voltage installations (in Norwegian only)
- Qualifications for electrical professionals (in Norwegian only)
- Supply of medicinal products etc. in the municipal health service (in Norwegian only)
- Flight over the continental shelf – commercial aviation to and from the helicopter deck on permanent and mobile offshore installations (in Norwegian only)
- Mobile offshore units with production plants and equipmentConstruction of mobile offshore units (in Norwegian only)
- Evacuation and lifesaving appliances on mobile offshore units (in Norwegian only)
- Standby vessels (in Norwegian only)
- Construction of mobile offshore units (in Norwegian only)
- Anchoring/positioning systems on mobile offhsore units (in Norwegian only)
- Stability, watertight subdivision and watertight/weathertight closing means on mobile offshore units (in Norwegian only)
- Certificates and qualification requirements for crews on mobile offshore units (in Norwegian only)
- Safety signs and signals in the workplace (in Norwegian only)
- Use of personal protective equipment in the workplace (in Norwegian only)
- Use of work equipment (in Norwegian only)
- Simple pressure vessels (in Norwegian only)
- Construction, design and manufacture of personal protective equipment (in Norwegian only)
- Aerosols (in Norwegian only)
- Electrical equipment (in Norwegian only)
- EMC (in Norwegian only)
- ATEX (in Norwegian only)
Orientation on key regulations that apply to activities on the land facilities in addition to the technical and operational regulations, for the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway's area of authority. The list is also found in the guidelines regarding said regulations (in the reference list). These are in Norwegian only.
- Regulations of 29 April 1977 No. 7 relating to safety delegates and working environment committees,
- Regulations of 20 April 1977 No. 9193 relating to tractors,
- Regulations of 10 September 1982 No. 1377 relating to technical installations,
- Regulations of 13 February 1984 No. 427 relating to prohibition against highly combustible textiles,
- Regulations of 14 June 1985 No. 1157 relating to work on ionizing radiation,
- Regulations of 19 November 1985 No. 2105 relating to digging and reinforcing of ditches,
- Regulations of 10 January 1986 No. 17 relating to the Working Environment Act's application for work in sole proprietorship companies within building and construction,
- Regulations of 11 April 1986 No. 870 relating to local safety delegates and working environment committees for loading and offloading,
- Regulations of 25 August 1986 No. 1792 relating to bolt guns with accessories,
- Regulations of 30 November 1990 No. 944 relating to diving,
- Regulations of 14 December 1993 No. 1133 relating to qualifications for electricians (FKE),
- Regulations of 24 May 1993 No. 1425 relating to use of personal protective equipment in the workplace,
- Regulations of 7 July 1994 No. 735 relating to simple pressure vessels,
- Regulations of 19 August 1994 No. 819 relating to construction, design and production of personal protective equipment (PPE),
- Regulations of 5 October 1994 No. 919 relating to gas appliances and equipment,
- Regulations of 6 October 1994 No. 972 relating to safety signs and signalling in the workplace,
- Regulations of 10 November 1994 No. 1053 relating to harbour work,
- Regulations of 15 December 1994, No. 1259 relating to work at computer monitors,
- Regulations of 20 January 1995 No. 156 relating to heavy and monotonous work,
- Regulations of 16 February 1995 No. 170 relating to work sites and workplaces,
- Regulations of 25 August 1995 No. 768 relating to genetic defects and working environment,
- Regulations of 1 March 1996 No. 229 relating to aerosol containers,
- Regulations of 9 December 1996 No. 1242 relating to equipment and safety systems for use in explosive areas (ATEX),
- Regulations of 19 September 1997 No. 1018 relating to regional safety delegates for building and construction work,
- Regulations of 19 December 1997 No. 1322 relating to protection of employees against hazards relating to biological factors,
- Regulations of 30 April 1998 No. 551 relating to work with children and young people,
- Regulations of 26 June 1998 No. 608 relating to use of work equipment,
- Regulations of 17 September 1998 No. 982 relating to health and safety in connection with drilling-related production industry for the land-based sector,
- Regulations of 6 November 1998 No. 1060 relating to low voltage electrical installations,
- Regulations of 10 February 1999 No. 206 relating to reduction of emissions of petrol fumes from storage and distribution of petrol,
- Regulations of 16 April 1999 No. 525 relating to combustibility of mattresses and stuffed furniture,
- Regulations of 9 June 1999 No. 721 relating to pressure equipment (RPE),
- Regulations of 20 August 1999 No. 955 relating to use and maintenance of electrical medical equipment,
- Regulations of 14 April 2000 No. 412 relating to the structure and use of substance files for hazardous substances in businesses (the Index Regulations),
- Regulations of 30 April 2001 No. 443 relating to protection against exposure to chemicals in the workplace (the Chemical Regulations),
- Regulations of 26 June 2001 No. 792 relating to portable pressure equipment for hazardous goods,
- Regulations of 4 December 2001 No. 1450 relating to maritime electrical installations,
- Regulations of 26 June 2002 No. 922 relating to handling of explosive substances,
- Regulations of 5 July 2002 No. 715 relating to work carried out in the employee's home,
- Regulations of 16 July 2002 No. 1139 relating to classification, marking etc. of hazardous chemicals,
- Regulations of 22 November 2002 No. 1323 relating to registration of businesses that engineer, construct and maintain electrical installations,
- Regulations of 30 June 2003 No. 911 relating to health and safety in explosive atmospheres,
- Regulations of 25 January 2005 No. 47 relating to soluble chromium in cement.
- Regulations of 26 April 2005 No. 362 relating to asbestos, with the exception of Section 11 regarding communication,
- Regulations of 17 June 2005 No. 672 relating to measures to prevent and limit the consequences of major accidents in activities where hazardous chemicals are used (the Major Accident Regulations),
- Regulations of 30 June 2005 No. 794 relating to safety, health and working environment in rock work,
- Regulations of 6 July 2005 No. 804 relating to protection against mechanical vibrations,
- Regulations of 26 April 2006 No. 456 relating to protection against noise in the workplace,
- Regulations of 31 October 2008 No. 1164 relating to electrical equipment,
- Regulations of 1 April 2009 No. 384 relating to ground transport of hazardous goods,
- Regulations of 11 April 2009 No. 162 requiring enterprises within certain industries to have an approved occupational health service,
- Regulations of 20 May 2009 No. 544 relating to machinery,
- Regulations of 3 August 2009 No. 1028 relating to safety, health and working environment at building or construction sites (the Building Owner Regulations),
- Regulations of 10 September 2009 No. 1173 relating to the employer's use of approved occupational health services and relating to approval of occupational health services.
Other regulations onshore.
- Regulations relating to wage agreement on building sites (in Norwegian only)
- Regulations relating to information and see-to-it duty etc. (in Norwegian only)
- Regulations relating to employment services (in Norwegian only)
- Regulations concerning posted workers ( in Norwegian only )
- Identity cards in the building and construction industry ( in Norwegian only )