Other objectives include contributing to risk-based supervision and tailoring supervisory work on the basis of experience acquired from data provided by the earlier activity at the PSA and others.

This project is being run by Norway’s collaboration group for regulatory supervision (TSG), which has the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (NLIA) as its coordinator.

“Sharing data between these agencies will lay the basis for the best possible coordination and efficiency in supervisory activities,” says director general Trude Vollheim at the NLIA.  “That benefits enterprises, industry and the agencies themselves.

“We can make better use of our resources, and simplify the daily lives of enterprises and industries by taking a more uniform approach.”

Digitalisation strategy

Through its co-financing scheme, the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency is helping to fund eight projects which are socio-economically profitable and which support the digitalisation strategy of central government and the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS).

Measures related to seven priority life events in the digitalisation strategy were front runners when these grants were awarded for 2020.

See the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency (in Norwegian only): 150 millionar i medfinansiering til åtte prosjekt

The project on regulatory supervision is clearly aimed at the “start and run a company” event, and was allocated just over NOK 7 million for use in the implementation and concluding phases, which will run in practice for a year from this May.

TSG

With the initiative for the work taken by the TSG, a conceptual phase was implemented in the autumn of 2019. The target group is all government agencies with a supervisory role in Norway.

The more of these bodies which share and draw on each other’s data in the time to come, the bigger the benefit will be. The project is collaborating well with several other Norwegian initiatives, and is basing its work on common national solutions.

In addition to the PSA and the NLIA,  the collaborating authorities are the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (DSA), the Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning (DSB), the Norwegian Environment Agency (NEA), the Norwegian Industrial Safety and Security Organisation (NSO) and the Norwegian Board of Health.

The project plans to complete its work in the spring of 2021.