About us

"Occupational Health and Safety" is an element that focuses on work accidents and occupational diseases and aims to improve the quality of both the work done and the working environment by aiming for employees to work in safe environments and conditions. With the latest legal regulations, studies on occupational health and safety are increasing in our country. New legal regulations cover businesses operating in all fields of activity, especially industrial organizations. The "Occupational Health and Safety" law obliges employers and the personnel responsible for working in businesses to identify all kinds of factors that may cause accidents in the workplace, to take the necessary precautions, to identify and avoid risks that may occur in the working environment, to analyze risks that cannot be avoided, to combat risks at their source. To improve the design of workplaces and work equipment, working style and production methods in order to make the work suitable for the employees, to replace the dangerous operations in the work environment with non-hazardous or less dangerous ones, to determine the factors related to technology, work organization, working conditions, social relations and working environment. It holds the company responsible for fulfilling obligations such as developing a consistent and general prevention policy covering its effects, prioritizing collective protection measures over personal protection measures, and creating workplace emergency plans. The training provided by formal education programs at the undergraduate level is insufficient to fulfill the responsibilities mentioned above. For this reason, the "Occupational Health and Safety Thesis and Non-thesis Master's and Doctoral Program" aims to train qualified personnel for the market by providing courses covering the above-mentioned subjects to employees graduating from various faculties, completing the deficiencies needed by the graduates. In addition, within the scope of continuous knowledge renewal, the Higher Education Institution encourages the opening of postgraduate programs outside working hours in order to meet the need for qualified personnel in the market by increasing the professional knowledge of undergraduate graduates working in the market. With these programs, a postgraduate training opportunity on "Occupational Health and Safety" is offered for personnel working in businesses on issues such as occupational safety, human resources, project and production management. Students who successfully complete the program and graduate improve their professional competencies by learning scientific techniques and methods along with theoretical and practical knowledge that they can benefit from in business life in public institutions or organizations operating in the field of production or service or in the private sector. Graduates have the competencies to foresee accidents that may occur in the working environment, to prevent accidents before they happen, to determine risks against accidents that may occur, to analyze accidents that occur, to obtain and interpret accident statistics, to determine safety measures to prevent accidents, and to determine crisis management and emergency plans.