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Many workers handle or are in contact with carcinogenic substances at work. Exposure limits for benzene have been much reduced by new learning and the great attention paid to this chemical compound. Diesel exhaust fumes are now also in the spotlight.

The 61-year-old Swede is not a qualified economist or analyst, but has made a living for many years from trading shares on the basis of working environment surveys from potential investment objects. 

Roald Sandal was an industrial worker who hid his inability to write for many years. The challenge he faced gave rise to a pilot project – and opened the road to the world’s first dyslexia-friendly workplace.

This issue of Dialogue celebrates the 50th anniversary with some stories from the decades which have passed since the oil prospectors arrived in the 1960s.

Norway didn’t become an oil nation because we were lucky.  People often say we got something undeserved, that we’re a humble and unsophisticated folk who’ve stumbled on an oil mountain where we sit and incubate our petroleum wealth.

An American work culture was dominant on the NCS from the start of Norway’s oil adventure until the end of the 1970s. Extending the Working Environment Act (WEA) offshore was an important milestone in making the new industry Norwegian.