TY  - JOUR
TT  - An overview of occupational health and safety and occupational diseases
AU  - Nayir, Tufan
AU  - Yeşilyurt, Hakkı
PY  - 2017
DA  - November
JF  - The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety
JO  - turjoem
PB  - Engin TUTKUN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-4711
SP  - 60
EP  - 60
VL  - 2
IS  - 1(4)
KW  - An overview of occupational health and safety and occupational diseases
N2  - Objective: It is aimedto directly obtain information, requests and suggestions about the problemsexperienced by the employers, workplace physicians and employees directly tothe employer, workplace physicians and employees and to ensure that theinformation received is sent to the related institutions and that the requestsof the field are kept ahead of the regulations to be made in occupationalhealth and occupational diseasesMethod: Tenworkplaces of different scales operating in five different cities were visitedand interviewed with employers, workplace workers, occupational physicians andoccupational health and safety specialists. Information on complaints,suggestions for solutions and requests were collected and information gatheredat the end of all negotiations was compiled.Findings: There is ademand for employers to make arrangements to create safe work environments byraising awareness of themselves and their employees, rather than establishing alaw based on punishment and compensation.Occupational physicians have stated thatthey want to receive more information with a stronger representation in theformal sense and with a rich curriculum on information sources that can alwaysbe reached in diagnostic treatment protocols in occupational diseases,practical occupational health and safety in pre- and postgraduate training andapproaches to occupational diseases.Workplace physicians are required toprovide feedback to those who have referred to the diagnostic centersauthorized for the diagnosis of occupational disease. They also stated thatthey had to have reliable and accredited laboratory finding problems in workplaceenvironment measurements, exposure, toxicity, and that guides should beprepared for these issues.Physicians stated that employers andemployees are not interested in the trainings to be carried out in thesematters. In cities, depending on the size of the city, and it would be usefulto have a job health and occupational disease center where they could directrisky employees.Employees state that they want to take moreconcrete measures for their physical, mental and social well-being. They alsostated that they did not want to have any job anxiety in the process ofdiagnosing occupational diseases and that the process of diagnosis should befacilitated for themConclusion: Laws andregulations in occupational health, safety and occupational diseases should beprotected and preventive and encouraged to prevent human health and well-being,instead of making the necessary arrangements and taking responsibility out ofnecessity.Key words: occupationalhealth, occupational diseases, employee, employer, workplace physician
CR  - Tufan Nayir*, Hakkı Yeşilyurt**
CR  - * Public Health Directorate of Mersin Province
** Field Coordinator Department of Turkey MoH
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/turjoem/issue//386038
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/413944
ER  -