The Danish Working Environment Authority (WEA) carries out different types of inspection in an effort to prevent accidents and sickness and to ensure safe and sound working places.
The control measures of the Danish Working Environment Authority
The Danish Working Environment Authority supervises whether Acts and rules in the field of safety and health at work are observed, inter alia through inspection visits and guidance of the enterprises and their safety organisations, with a view to making the enterprises capable of solving their own tasks in relation to the working environment. The different forms of sanctions of the Danish Working Environment Authority, i.e. improvement notices, legal charges, administrative fines and guidelines - will depend on both the enterprise’s actual working environment standards and on its own efforts. As an executive authority, the Danish Working Environment Authority focuses in particular on enterprises with poor safety and health conditions and no serious policy in relation to working environment issues.
The Working Environment Authority applies, in particular, six methods of inspection:
- Screening, which is a quick review of the working environment at the enterprise with a view to assessing whether it should be subjected to adapted inspection.
- Adapted inspection, in which the Danish Working Environment Authority targets its resources on the enterprises which have the most hazardous working environment conditions. The inspection is solution-oriented and takes into consideration the enterprises' own efforts to improve the working environment and standards of working conditions in the enterprise. As an element of the adapted inspection, the Danish Working Environment Authority breaks down the enterprises into three levels for the purpose of using the resources on the enterprises, which have the greatest needs.
- Detailed inspection takes the form of inspection of problems or problem areas, including examination of work-related accidents, diseases and ailments.
- Supplier inspection takes the form of inspection of safety and health for the users of one or more of the suppliers' products.
- Project and counselling inspection, includes inspection of the rights and duties of the project and counselling parties in compliance with the Danish Working Environment Act.
- Special inspection includes inspection of lifts, boilers, containers, pipeline systems, natural gas plants, risk enterprises and genetics laboratories. Manufacturing controls are performed in case of boilers for the purpose of export and import.
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