The occupational health and safety issue, which has become very important due to the recent occupational accidents and injuries brought with it, has also created awareness in society. This concept, shortened as ISG", is the case in which applications and Reviews made to protect employees are supported by laws and regulations.
The concept of occupational safety can be defined as measures taken to ensure the safety of employees and to work in healthy and safe conditions. Occupational health and safety science includes methods of prevention of hazards arising in connection with the smooth execution of work done at workplaces, conditions that may cause harm to the health of workers, and in addition, methods of creating a safer working environment. In general, this is not just about protecting employees.; in addition, it includes the workplace, its subsidiaries and the environmental protection status where the work is performed.
The term occupational health and safety can be defined as a science which measures against the risk of any occupational accidents and diseases that may occur at work place and aims to meet the requirements in this regard. The tools, tools and procedures that are needed to accomplish all of this are naturally installed on the shoulders of the employer. In addition, certain duties are brought to the responsible workers and masters. The concept of occupational health and safety is also based on the fields of Medicine, law, Sociology, psychology and Economics in the scientific sense. A number of laws which constitute the basis for the name of ISG can be considered as laws or regulations such as labor health and safety Law, Law no: 6331, law no: 506, Law on the Turkish Penal Code, Law on Environment, Law on Turkish Trade Law, Law on debts, law on trade unions.
In the field of occupational health and safety, working conditions together with ergonomic conditions constitute the basis for some problems. It is important to note that the work place is extremely hot and humid, smells bad, airless and polluted, lighting is inadequate according to the work, noise is too loud, break periods are low, night work with shifts is more than the distractions of attention, work tempo is HIGH or very low, body or specific organs extremely tired of work, heavy work conditions and
Occupational health and safety experts are of great importance for the supervision of the principles on occupational health and safety and guidance in this regard. The responsibilities of these experts are very high in the jobs that take place in a very dangerous class, such as the construction and mining sector. Occupational health and safety experts who work in sectors such as textiles, education, etc.in dangerous and less dangerous classes have started to work quite frequently in these areas in recent years. The mandatory employment of experts is fixed by law, taking into account the number of employees and the degree of danger of the sector.
Employees devote their lives to factories or companies. For this reason, the health conditions of the workplaces must be monitored at the highest level and the working conditions must be taken to the appropriate levels. In order to prevent occupational accidents, to prevent deaths, injuries and injuries, these issues have to be dealt with with sensitively.