ISSN 2756-3308
African Journal of Estate and Property Management ISSN 9671-8498 Vol. 4 (8), pp. 001-008, August, 2017. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
A research of occupational safety in forest products industry in Turkey
Derya Sevim Korkut* and Tarik Gedik
Department of Forest Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, Duzce University, Duzce, 81620, Turkey.
Accepted 21 October, 2016
Abstract
Nowadays, occupational safety has become an important discipline for employees to work at healthier and safer places by providing safer working conditions at workplace. Therefore, occupational safety is important in terms of not only employees’ safety but also being safely carried out the whole enterprise and the production. In the study, it was aimed to make analysis of worker’s health and occupational safety of employees of forest industry enterprise operating in Duzce which is an important city regarding the forest products industry in Turkey. For this purpose, it was planned to apply the study in Duzce, in which every sub sector of forest products industry operate and a questionnaire, including employees of forest industry enterprise, was applied. In the study, the factors affecting worker’s health of employees in forest industry enterprise and occupational safety and the situation of the enterprise in terms of the results were analyzed. As a result of the study, it was determined that 55.3% of employees did not receive occupational safety education and they are not pleased enough to the level of natural and artificial lightening. Furthermore, employees pointed out that back and belly ache, head and neck ache, foot and ankle ache and generally pain complains are their discomfort.
Key words: Occupational safety, forest industry, Duzce, Turkey.