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  1. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
  2. Laws and Regulations
  3. Regulations
  4. Regulations concerning Organisation, Management and Employee Participation
  5. Chapter 15. Use of personal protective equipment

Regulations concerning Organisation, Management and Employee Participation

Section 1-1. Purpose

Section 1-2. Scope

Section 1-3. To whom the regulations apply

Section 1-4. Definitions

Section 1-5. Exemption

Section 1-6. (Repealed)

Section 2-1. Employee participation

Section 2-2. Duties and participation of safety representatives

Section 2-3. Duties of the working environment committee

Section 2-4. Consideration by the working environment committee of plans for building works etc.

Section 3-1. Division into safety areas

Section 3-2. Election of safety representatives

Section 3-3. Election of deputy for the safety representative

Section 3-4. Term of office for safety representatives

Section 3-5. Senior safety representative

Section 3-6. Election of deputy for the senior safety representative

Section 3-7. Working environment committee

Section 3-8. Right to vote in elections of members of the working environment committee

Section 3-9. Election of members of the working environment committee

Section 3-10. Election of members of the working environment committee in undertakings with several local trade unions

Section 3-11. Deputies for members of the working environment committee

Section 3-12. Chair of the working environment committee

Section 3-13. Matters that concern a group of employees not represented on the working environment committee

Section 3-14. Several working environment committees in the same undertaking

Section 3-15. Term of office for members of the working environment committee

Section 3-16. Rules of procedure for the working environment committee

Section 3-17. Duty of secrecy for safety representatives and members of the working environment committee

Section 3-18. Training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-19. Duration of the training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-20. Implementation of training of safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-21. The Labour Inspection Authority's right to instruct employers to provide training for safety representatives and members of working environment committees

Section 3-22. Undertakings that have other collaborative bodies

Section 3-23. Special groups

Section 4-1. Election of safety representatives and working environment committees at company quays and in ports

Section 4-2. Election of safety representatives for stevedores

Section 4-3. Election of working environment committees for stevedores

Section 4-4. The duties, obligations and rights of the safety representative and the working environment committee

Section 4-5. The employer's right to state his or her opinion

Section 4-6. The employer's right to submit the working environment committee's decision to the Labour Inspection Authority

Section 4-7. Expenses relating to the safety representatives and the working environment committees' activities

Section 5-1. Scope

Section 5-2. The authority and duties of regional safety representatives

Section 5-3. Regional safety representatives' right to information

Section 5-4. Duty of secrecy

Section 5-5. Competence requirements

Section 6-1. Scope

Section 6-2. Qualifications etc.

Section 6-3. The authority and duties of regional safety representatives

Section 6-4. Right to information

Section 6-5. Duty of secrecy

Section 7-1. General requirements for mapping and risk assessments

Section 7-2. Measurement as the basis for risk assessment

Section 7-3. Additional requirements for risk assessments:

Section 8-1. General requirements for training

Section 8-2. Qualification and additional requirements for training

Section 9-1. General requirements for information to employees

Section 9-2. Additional requirements for information to employees

Section 10-1. Planning and facilitation of the work

Section 10-2. Prevention of injuries relating to ergonomically strenuous work

Section 10-3. Requirements for the choice of work equipment

Section 10-4. Requirements for systematic inspection and maintenance

Section 10-5. Requirements for safety signage and signalling

Section 10-6. Requirements for warning and communication devices

Section 10-7. Requirements for software and computer systems

Section 10-8. Variation and rest

Section 11-1. General requirements for work instructions for work execution and use of work equipment

Section 11-2. Additional requirements for work instructions

Section 12-1. Risk assessments and specially adapted measures for employees under the age of 18

Section 12-2. Right to use children aged 13 for work

Section 12-3. Right to employ children in cultural work or similar

Section 12-4. Consent of parents or guardians

Section 12-5. Limitations on work to be performed by children and young people

Section 12-6. Prohibition on work that can entail a particular risk of harm to health

Section 12-7. Exemption from the prohibition on work for vocational training

Section 12-7A. Exemption from Section 11-2 third paragraph and Section 11-5 third paragraph relating to vocational training in building and construction

Section 12-8. Right to use children for cultural, artistic or sports-related work

Section 12-9. Conditions for using young people for night work

Section 12-10. Requirement for information

Section 12-11. Requirement for the participation of the safety representative for employees aged under 18

Section 12-12. Requirement that a list be kept of young employees

Section 13-1. The undertaking's duty to be affiliated with an occupational health service

Section 13-2. The employer's use of the occupational health service

Section 13-3. Plans, annual reports and other reports

Section 14-1. Requirement for health surveillance

Section 14-2. Registration and notification of work accidents and occupational diseases

Section 14-3. Medical practitioners' duty of notification in building and construction undertakings

Section 14-4. Examination of employees' eyesight in connection with work at computer screens

Section 14-5. The employer's follow-up of the medical examinations

Section 14-6. Requirement for medical practitioners' competence

Section 14-7. The employer's coverage of expenses for medical examinations

Section 15-1. General requirements for the use of personal protective equipment

Section 15-2. Additional requirements for personal protective equipment

Section 15-3. Requirements for personal protective equipment

Section 15-4. Requirements for maintenance and inspection of personal protective equipment

Section 15-5. Requirement for information about personal protective equipment

Section 16-1. Penal sanctions

Section 16-2. Fine for violations

Section 16-3. Entry into force

Chapter 15. Use of personal protective equipment

Section 15-1. General requirements for the use of personal protective equipment Section 15-2. Additional requirements for personal protective equipment Section 15-3. Requirements for personal protective equipment Section 15-4. Requirements for maintenance and inspection of personal protective equipment Section 15-5. Requirement for information about personal protective equipment

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