Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority

Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
	Arbeidstilsynet
Government agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Norway
Headquarters	Trondheim, Norway
Employees	c. 600
Government agency executive	Trude Vollheim, Director;
Parent Government agency	Norwegian Ministry of Labour
Website	www.arbeidstilsynet.no

The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (Norwegian: Arbeidstilsynet) is a Norwegian government agency under the Ministry of Labour. It is responsible for supervising the implementation of the Working Environment Act, the Annual Holidays Act, and the National Holidays Act, as well as certain sections of the Smoking Act.

The organization consists of a Directorate (Direktoratet for Arbeidstilsynet) based in Trondheim, seven regional offices and sixteen local offices spread around the country.

The heads of the Directorate, and thereby of the whole organization, have been Olav Hindahl (1946–1963), Bjarne Dahlberg (1963–1977), Odd Højdahl (1977–1988), Dagfinn Habberstad (1988–1994), Ivar Leveraas (1994–2006), Ingrid Finboe Svendsen (2006–2016) and Trude Vollheim (2017–present).

References

Official site (in Norwegian)
- About the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority

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