Download
Skip this Video
1 / 17
Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
- 140 Views
- Uploaded on
REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY. Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS. CONTENT:. Current Situation of Shipyard Industry in Turkey Employment Figure Problems and Solutions. SITUATION IN TURKEY.
Download Presentation 
An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation
Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS
An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation
Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author.
While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - E N D - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Presentation Transcript
MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
Kasım ÖZER
General Director of OHS
CONTENT:
- Current Situation of Shipyard Industry in Turkey
- Employment Figure
- Problems and Solutions
SITUATION IN TURKEY
Number of Shipyards
İSTANBUL – TUZLA REGION
- 46 active shipyards (54% of total),
- Full schedule until year 2012,
- 1,3 million m2 working area for those 46,
(twice of normal area for 1)
- Approx. 500 sub-contractors operate,
- Approx. 24.000 workers employed,
- Of 24.000 workers; 19.000 employed by sub-contractors,
- A number of unregistered workplaces.
FATAL ACCIDENTS
TURKEY
BASIC PROBLEMS
- Small working areas,
- Overtime working,
- Insufficient OHS measures,
- Insufficient OHS and vocational trainings,
- Unregistered employment,
- Obstacles arising from sub-contracting,
- Lack of safety culture.
SPECIFIC PROBLEMS
Lack of;
- Risk assessment applications,
- Training programs,
- Occupational health surveillance,
- Fire squads and exercises,
- Periodical controls for lifting equipments,
- Protection against electrical hazards,
- Protective activities for explosive atmospheres,
- PPE use.
SOLUTIONS
- Legislative activities,
- Occupational health and safety trainings for employers, OHS professionals and employees,
- Occupational exposure measurements,
- Continuous inspections on
- occupational health and safety,
- legal issues,
- Administrative fines,
- Suspending the operations of enterprises,
- Closure of workplaces.
SOLUTIONS
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES
- Work Act 2003, Article 77,
Obligations of employers:
- Controlling whether the OHS measures are obeyed or not at the workplace,
- Informing workers about occupational risks to be faced with, measures to be taken and their legal rights and responsibilities,
- Ensure that the required OHS trainings are given to workers.
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES
- Amendments for Work Act 2008,
- Vocational training obligation for those work in heavy and hazardous works defined in the related implementing regulation,
- Written contract obligation between employer and sub-contractor,
- Joint responsibility for sub-contractor with employer.
SOLUTIONS
TRAININGS
“Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards” 25.02.2008
- DGOHS
- CASGEM (Training Unit of MoLLS)
- GISBIR (Turkish Shipbuilders’ Association)
- Dok-Gemi Is (Trade Union for Shipyard Workers)
SOLUTIONS
“Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards”
Measurements
(March-September)
192 Heavy metal
379 Dust
27 Gas
72 Vibration
319 Noise
Training Participants
(March-April/2008)
95 Sub-contractor
39 Employer
102 Occ. safety expert
368 Engineer
(August-2008)
17.000 Worker
SOLUTIONS
INSPECTIONS
In last two years;
- Totally 203 inspection,
- Operations suspended in 19,
- 7 Closed,
- 2.300.000,00 TL (~ € 1.1 million) administrative fine applied to workplaces.
