Apply for authorisation of an occupational health service
All enterprises that offer occupational health services (OHS) must be authorised by the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority.
Only organisations with such authorisation can legally provide occupational health services.
An authorisation for an occupational health service is generally valid for five years. All companies that are authorised by the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority will be listed in an overview of publicly authorised occupational health services at arbeidstilsynet.no.
Guidance
This form is only available in Norwegian.
Who should use this form?
Occupational health services that wish to offer services to companies must be authorised by the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (Arbeidstilsynet).
Access to the form
Access packages
Submitting form
The person submitting the form on behalf of your organisation must have the correct authorisation via an access package (tilgangspakker) in Altinn. For this form, the person must have one of the following access packages:
Area of authority Forhold ved virksometen: «Starte, endre og avvikle virksomhet»
Area of authority Helse, pleie, omsorg og vern: «Helsetjenester»
Receiving mail
To receive mail from us you must have the following access package:
«Ordinær post til virksomheten»
Read more about the new access packages in Altinn and how to grant authorisations (in Norwegian)
Access as an individual service
The person submitting the form on behalf of the organisation may also access the form as an individual service. This individual service is called:
«Søknad om godkjenning av bedriftshelsetjeneste»
In addition, you must grant authorisation for this individual service to be able to notify the Labour Inspection Authority of changes:
«Endringsmelding til godkjenning av bedriftshelsetjeneste»
Read more about how you grant authorisation for individual services (in Norwegian)
What should I attach?
In your application, you must include documentation of
professional expertise in occupational medicine/occupational health
professional expertise in occupational hygiene
professional expertise in ergonomics
expertise in psychosocial and organisational working environment
the occupational health service's expertise in systematic HSE work
systematic collaboration with the client enterprises
quality assurance of the services you provide
plan for competence development
completed mandatory training for OHS
personnel for all employees
You must also show that the professional staff covers a minimum of 3 full-time equivalents (FTEs) and that the individual disciplines are covered by a minimum of 30% of one FTE (the professional staff must be permanently employed).