Its most important duties are developing and establishing regulations, supervising the companies, administering and communicating knowledge, providing specialist advice to the ministry, and serving as a centre of expertise in its domain towards the industry, other government bodies and the public.
Havtil is staffed and organised to reflect the industries it is responsible for, and has highly qualified personnel with broad-based or leading-edge expertise in such key disciplines as:
- occupational health and safety
- drilling and well technology
- HSE, maintenance and project management
- structural integrity
- logistics and emergency preparedness
- process integrity
- security, cyber security and societal safety.