CHEMICAL ORIGINATED OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES IN ÇORUM

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 153 - 153, 16.02.2017

Ömer Yurdakul , Dursun Ali Köse

Abstract

In accordance
with Article 14 of 5510 Social Security and General Health Insurance Law,
Occupational Disease has defined as “That the insured suffers temporary or
permanent illness is physical or mental disabilities, due to the nature of the
work or his work as a repeating reason or because of the conditions of work
execution. According to No. 6331 Occupational Health and Safety Law,
Occupational disease is defined as the diseases resulting from exposure to
occupational risk.

International
Labour Organization has defined occupational disease in the Protocol of 2002 to
the Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No. 155) as “covers any
disease contracted as a result of an exposure to risk factors arising from work
activity”.

Occupational
diseases are divided into four groups including caused by Chemical agents,
Physical agents, Biological agents and psycho-social agents. Chemical
originated occupational diseases are classified into three groups as Heavy
metal originated, aliphatic-aromatic compound originated and gas originated
occupational diseases.

In the present
study, Chemical Originated Occupational Diseases, the distribution by sector of
these diseases, changes according to age and years were examined on the basis
of Social Security Administration data in Çorum the last five years.

Keywords

CHEMICAL ORIGINATED OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES IN ÇORUM

References

• Ömer YURDAKUL, Dursun Ali KÖSE
• Hitit Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Kimya Bölümü, ÇORUM