An overview of occupational health and safety and occupational diseases

Yıl 2017, Volume 2, Issue 1(4), 59 - 59, 01.11.2017

Tufan Nayir Hakkı Yeşilyurt

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Objective: It is aimed
to directly obtain information, requests and suggestions about the problems
experienced by the employers, workplace physicians and employees directly to
the employer, workplace physicians and employees and to ensure that the
information received is sent to the related institutions and that the requests
of the field are kept ahead of the regulations to be made in occupational
health and occupational diseases

Method: Ten
workplaces of different scales operating in five different cities were visited
and interviewed with employers, workplace workers, occupational physicians and
occupational health and safety specialists. Information on complaints,
suggestions for solutions and requests were collected and information gathered
at the end of all negotiations was compiled.

Findings: There is a
demand for employers to make arrangements to create safe work environments by
raising awareness of themselves and their employees, rather than establishing a
law based on punishment and compensation.

Occupational physicians have stated that
they want to receive more information with a stronger representation in the
formal sense and with a rich curriculum on information sources that can always
be reached in diagnostic treatment protocols in occupational diseases,
practical occupational health and safety in pre- and postgraduate training and
approaches to occupational diseases.

Workplace physicians are required to
provide feedback to those who have referred to the diagnostic centers
authorized for the diagnosis of occupational disease. They also stated that
they had to have reliable and accredited laboratory finding problems in workplace
environment measurements, exposure, toxicity, and that guides should be
prepared for these issues.

Physicians stated that employers and
employees are not interested in the trainings to be carried out in these
matters. In cities, depending on the size of the city, and it would be useful
to have a job health and occupational disease center where they could direct
risky employees.

Employees state that they want to take more
concrete measures for their physical, mental and social well-being. They also
stated that they did not want to have any job anxiety in the process of
diagnosing occupational diseases and that the process of diagnosis should be
facilitated for them

Conclusion: Laws and
regulations in occupational health, safety and occupational diseases should be
protected and preventive and encouraged to prevent human health and well-being,
instead of making the necessary arrangements and taking responsibility out of
necessity.

Key words: occupational
health, occupational diseases, employee, employer, workplace physician

Anahtar Kelimeler

An overview of occupational health and safety and occupational diseases

Kaynakça

• Tufan Nayir*, Hakkı Yeşilyurt**
• * Public Health Directorate of Mersin Province ** Field Coordinator Department of Turkey MoH