Technical and supervisory news

Norway’s petroleum industry must give a high priority to safety and the working environment when developing and implementing digital technology.

What is your enterprise doing to develop a committed and competent industrial safety service? We have produced a simple checklist which employers and employees can use to implement and follow up the organisation of worker participation.

We are now conducting a general user survey to secure feedback from the industry and information about the effect of our activities. Questionnaires will be distributed in November.

Over a number of years, the PSA has conducted meetings with different groups of participants to investigate which supervisory activities are most effective. Here we have identified certain key concepts emerging from these meetings.

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) is working to learn more about which of its supervisory activities have the greatest effect, and to increase awareness about which approaches give the best return.

The International Regulators' Forum (IRF) has again called on petroleum industry associations and individual companies to maintain their efforts to strengthen offshore safety, particularly with regard to process safety and major accident events.

Our annual report is published in the second half of April and describes key results from our supervisory activities.

We are continuing last year’s user survey designed to measure how the companies perceive our audits and what effect they have, and to secure improvements for future audits.

The new psa.no site gives you better search functions and a completely new link between supervision and regulations.

The PSA is currently conducting a study to examine challenges and improvement measures involved in field developments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).