Occupational health and safety awareness in wood, wood products and mushroom production sector in Turkey

Year 2020, Volume: 21 Issue: 3, 260 - 266, 30.09.2020

Osman Komut , Şekip Şadiye Yaşar , Mehmet Yaşar

https://doi.org/10.18182/tjf.741635

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The forest industry is one of the sectors where occupational accidents are the most common. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the differences in opinions of personnel in enterprises, which fall into Turkish wood, wood products and mushroom production group, concerning occupational health and safety. Within this framework, a questionnaire application was conducted based on face to face meeting in a total of 68 enterprises in Erzincan province. In the questionnaire, the 5-point likert rating scale was used in determination of agreement level to scale items containing 9 different opinions concerning occupational health and safety issue underlying demographic characteristics of personnel and features of enterprises. As the result of the study, it was detected that machinery maintenance frequencies are too far, necessary personal protective equipment is not supplied in time and basic occupational health and safety principle implementation has deficiencies. Besides, statistically significant differences (p<0.05) were identified between opinions of employees in relation to variances as age, marital status, department worked, total time of employment in the enterprise, machinery maintenance frequency that is applied, workplace change intervals and exposure to occupational accidents. 

Keywords

Occupational health and safety, Wood products sector, Awareness, Small and medium sized enterprise

Thanks

This research was presented as an oral presentation at the International Forest Products Congress (ORENKO 2018, 26-29 September 2018).

Türkiye ağaç, ağaç ürünleri ve mantar üretim sektöründe iş sağlığı ve güvenliği farkındalığı

Abstract

Orman endüstri sektörü, en fazla iş kazası meydana gelen sektörlerden biridir. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye ağaç, ağaç ürünleri ve mantar imalatı grubunda yer alan işletme çalışanlarının iş sağlığı ve güvenliği konusundaki görüş farklılıkları ortaya koyulmaya çalışılmıştır. Bu kapsamda, Erzincan ilinde toplam 68 işletmeye yüz yüze görüşme esasına dayalı anket uygulaması gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ankette, çalışanların demografik özellikleri ile işletmelerin bazı özellikleri temelinde, iş sağlığı ve güvenliği konusunda 9 farklı görüş içeren ölçek maddelerine katılım oranlarının belirlenmesinde 5’li likert tipi derecelendirme ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Çalışma sonucunda, ağaç, ağaç ürünleri ve mantar imalatı sektöründe çalışanların eğitim düzeylerinin düşük olduğu ve orta yaş grubunda yer aldıkları görülmüştür. Diğer yandan sektörde, makine bakım sıklıklarının çok uzun olduğu ve gerekli kişisel koruyucu ekipmanların zamanında sağlanmadığı ve temel iş sağlığı ve güvenliği ilkelerinin uygulanmasında eksiklikler olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bununla birlikte yaş, medeni durum, çalışılan departman, işyerindeki toplam çalışma süresi, uygulanan makine bakım sıklığı, işyeri değişim sıklığı ve iş kazalarına maruz kalma değişkenlerine ilişkin çalışanların iş sağlığı ve güvenliği hususundaki görüşleri arasında istatistiksel düzeyde anlamlı (p<0,05) farklılıklar olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

İş sağlığı ve güvenliği, Kereste üretim sektörü, Farkındalık, Küçük ve orta ölçekli işletme

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