Abstract:

Most of the buildings in our country are reinforced concrete buildings. Most of these buildings can not provide the expected earthquake performance since they were built without considering the engineering service and the earthquake effect. Hence, in order to prevent and minimize the loss of life and property that may occur in an earthquake, the first thing to do is to build earthquake resistant buildings, to make buildings earthquake resistant which have insufficient earthquake safety or to carry out the demolition process. Therefore, investigating the earthquake safety of the buildings, demolishing the necessary ones and constructing new ones becomes one of the vital issues. Considering the building stock in our country, it is of great importance to take and implement the necessary occupational health and safety measures in the buildings to be demolished. Within the scope of this study, the earthquake safety of 6 reinforced concrete residential buildings in the province of Isparta was determined by examining according to the Turkish Building Earthquake Code (TBEC, 2018), and it was observed that it did not provide the earthquake performance level required to be provided in the relevant code. Therefore, it was decided that they should be demolished within the scope of urban transformation. The existing standards and regulations used in our country have been examined in terms of occupational health and safety during the demolition process of buildings. As a result of the investigations, it has been observed that the current standards and regulations used in our country in terms of occupational health and safety should be revised and made more comprehensive according to today's conditions. It has been observed that necessary inspections and controls should be carried out in order to prevent unconscious demolition processes and occupational accidents.

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