Occupational Health and Safety Issues in Turkey and European Union: A Comparative Study in The Context of Turkey’s Path Towards EU Membership

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