A research of occupational safety in forest products industry in Turkey

Nowadays, occupational safety has become an important discipline for employees to work at healthier and safer places by providing safer working conditions at workplace. Therefore, occupational safety is important in terms of not only employeesʹ safety but also being safely carried out the whole enterprise and the production. In the study, it was aimed to make analysis of workerʹs health and occupational safety of employees of forest industry enterprise operating in Duzce which is an important city regarding the forest products industry in Turkey. For this purpose, it was planned to apply the study in Duzce, in which every sub sector of forest products industry operate and a questionnaire, including employees of forest industry enterprise, was applied. In the study, the factors affecting workerʹs health of employees in forest industry enterprise and occupational safety and the situation of the enterprise in terms of the results were analyzed. As a result of the study, it was determined that 55.3% of employees did not receive occupational safety education and they are not pleased enough to the level of natural and artificial lightening. Furthermore, employees pointed out that back and belly ache, head and neck ache, foot and ankle ache and generally pain complains are their discomfort.