MATURATION PYRAMID OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Year 2017, Volume: 12 Issue: 4, 262 - 270, 31.10.2017

Fatih Perçin , Eren Haydan

Abstract

Occupational Health and Safety System (OHS) is
important for governments, employers and workers. Recently, OHS program has
developed day by day and tried to secure working environment. For this purpose,
it is necessary that the written job security rules
in the workplace should be internalized by employees, and employers, and
government system. Workers can comply from the top to the bottom of
organization and contribute to development of rules through their own personal
knowledge, experience, and in-house training. In addition, they are complying
with job security rules without requiring an audit, which is thus called as an
occupational safety culture. Many employees are affected by accident and
their health is deteriorated year by year, which inevitably leads to loss of
work force thus countries suffering from economic and social damages. Moreover,
OHS is not only enough for improving security culture but also requires
collateral training and maturation processes. The purpose of OHS activity is to
reduce job accidents that declines rate of work harm, economic loss and social
problems in the government. Furthermore, occupational safety researches are
associated with engineering techniques, in particular. To add, it includes
human social and dependent sciences. Maturation and
evolution in companies and countries are included in this concept. The present study emphasizes the new model as an
approach to fatalism, formalism, prescriptivism, internalization, participation,
and awareness. 

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