The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority is Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 government agency

Etat

Etat is a Norwegian state-, county- or municipal agency. An Etat is a subdivision of the administration, which has been given responsibility for a special area. An agency does not have a board of directors, but it does have a director, appointed by the subordinate organization. Normally decisions...

 under the Ministry of Labour

Norwegian Ministry of Labour

The Norwegian Ministry of Labour was a Norwegian ministry which was established on 1 September 1885 and was disestablished on 22 February 1946...

. It is responsible for supervising the Working Environment Act, the Annual Holidays Act, 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

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, seven regional offices and sixteen local offices spread around the country.

Heads of the Directorate, and thereby of the whole organization, have been Olav Hindahl

Olav Hindahl

Olav Hindahl was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.He started his career as a typographer, and became involved in the local labour union. He rose up the ladder and became leader of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in 1934. He left in 1939 to become Minister...

 (1946–1963), Bjarne Dahlberg (1963–1977), Odd Højdahl

Odd Højdahl

Odd Højdahl is a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Oslo.In 1971–1972 he was the Minister of Social Affairs in the first cabinet Bratteli. As an elected politician he served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Oslo during the...

 (1977–1988), Dagfinn Habberstad

Dagfinn Habberstad

Dagfinn Habberstad is a Norwegian trade unionist and civil servant.He was born in Asker. He was a leader of the trade union Norsk Tjenestemannslag from 1978 to 1988. From 1988 to 1994 he served as director of the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. After this he has been an advisor in the same...

 (1988–1994), Ivar Leveraas

Ivar Leveraas

Ivar Leveraas is a Norwegian civil servant and politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Haugesund. A mechanic by education, he worked as a secretary in Arbeidernes Opplysningsforbund from 1970 to 1975. From 1975 to 1986 he was the secretary of the Labour Party...

 (1994–2006) and Ingrid Finboe Svendsen (2006–present).