Occupational health and safety
Topic: Community health
Work that protects workers from health and safety risks arising from their work. Under Türkiye's Law 6331, the employer assesses risks, trains workers and keeps them under health surveillance, and assigns a workplace physician, an occupational safety specialist and, in very hazardous workplaces with 10 or more workers, other health personnel, or buys these services from joint health and safety units or from the Ministry of Health's employee health centers (ÇASMER). Nurses working in hospitals are workers under this law too.
- Also known as:
- OHS
- In Turkish:
- İş sağlığı ve güvenliği
What does Occupational health and safety mean?
Occupational health and safety is part of the Community health topic in nursing. Students meet it in class, on clinical placements and while preparing for exams.
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