One of the most important human resources problems encountered in businesses is that employees do not have a safe and healthy working environment. In order for businesses to achieve better competitive conditions, employees should carry out planned and systematic studies on occupational health and safety.

Standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 focused on quality and environmental management, so a separate standard was required to ensure occupational health and safety in enterprises and to protect them by continuous improvement. Occupational Health and Safety, which is one of the most important issues in integration with the European Union, also includes nearly all the requirements of this standard in the Labor Law.

Standards such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 focused on quality and environmental management, so a separate standard was required in order to ensure occupational health and safety in organizations and to protect them by continuous improvement.

ISO 45001 is a standard for the health and safety of the employees rather than the safety of the products and services of the organizations.

Occupational health and Safety

It is the set of factors and conditions that affect the health and safety of all people (employees, temporary workers, subcontractor employees, visitors, customers and anyone in the workplace) affected by the activities of an organization.

General Information About Occupational Health and Safety Management System

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Management System; It is a tool for systematically addressing occupational health and safety activities in line with the general strategies of the organizations and analyzing them within the framework of continuous improvement approach.

OHS activities in our country evoke the use of personal protectors and are traditionally perceived as work to be done separately. With the OHS Management System, the roles and responsibilities of the employees, managers and supervisors will be made clear and the participation of the employees will be ensured.

With this system, employees are determined to identify OHS risks and minimize them with precautions, comply with laws, implement targets through management programs, provide appropriate OHS trainings, be ready for emergencies, monitor their performance, use monitoring results to start improvement activities, supervise their activities, review their actions. and will be part of a system that gives the necessary importance to OHS activities in a documenting organization.

Occupational Health and Safety Management System is the approach in which studies are carried out to determine hazards and risks in a systematic and scientific manner and to take precautions against these dangers and risks in order to protect against accidents and other effects that may harm health caused by various reasons and to provide a better working environment during the performance of work in the workplace.

Occupational Health and Safety Management System; It is a tool used to analyze occupational health and safety activities within the framework of continuous improvement approach by systematically addressing them in line with the general strategies of the organizations.

Institutions Implementing the Occupational Health and Safety Management System in General:

• Identified the occupational health and safety risks and minimized these risks with the necessary precautions,
• fulfilled the requirements of the relevant legislation, laws and laws,
• set targets for Occupational Health and Safety and has developed management programs to achieve,
• have provided the appropriate person required training,
• emergency (accidents, etc.) have made the necessary preparations for,
• Occupational Health and Safety following the audit the performance of the system,
• initiate remediation activities necessary depending on the results of monitoring,
• studies on occupational health and safety by They are the institutions that document and record the results.