%0 Journal Article
%T Occupational Health and Safety Issues in Turkey and European Union: A Comparative Study in The Context of Turkey¡¯s Path Towards EU Membership
%A Nesrin Demir
%J International Journal of Contemporary Economics and Administrative Sciences
%D 2011
%I International Journal of Contemporary Economics and Administrative Sciences
%X The matter of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) appears as an important problem all over the world.   A wide range of people die or become disabled because of occupational accidents and professional diseases every year. According to International Labour Organisation's (ILO) records, approximately  270 million occupational accidents occur, 160 million people suffer from illness  originated from working and 2 million and 200 thousand people pass away due to the occupational accidents and professional diseases each year. Coming out occupational accidents and diseases as   a major problem in our country  like in the world, So the regulations and investments about  ISG  has been given  intensity.  Council of the Ministers of EU has admitted detailed directives that lay out the OHS up till now. There is  a comprehensive  EU legislation in the field of OHS. Turkey began the EU  membership negotiations on 3th October 2005 and arranged laws in field of OHS to adapt principles of EU; carried out applications intended to enhancing the awareness of OHS. In Turkey, applications about OHS dates back pre-construction of EU. The first application
%K Occupational
%K Health and Safety
%K Regulations
%K Laws
%K European Union
%U http://www.ijceas.com/index.php/ijceas/article/view/33