HSE Course for Safety Representatives

The Working Environment Act § 6-5 reqire that Safety Representatives (Verneombud) receive appropriate training in order to perform their tasks.

This course will give a basic introduction to the laws and is based on The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authorities (Arbeidstilsynet) guidelines for Safety Representatives.

This course is an alternative to the standard 40 hours course.

Regulations concerning Organisation, Management and Employee Participation states that:

Training for less than 40 hours may be agreed if the parties jointly find that it is justified based on an assessment of the nature and scope of the problems

It is recommended to document this agreement in this template (no). Also, an «soundness assessment» must be documented. For SME’s with a limited scope of risk, this is straight forward in the template above.

Target Audience

Safety Representatives.

Prerequisites

None.

Beneficial to have a look at these resources first:

• Working conditions in Norway
• Workinnorway.no