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In the maritime sector, which is one of the major actors in international trade, it is very important to manage transportation activities safely in order to ensure the sustainability of its activities. The safety management system is a system developed to identify the risks that threaten the safety of life, property, and the environment in maritime transport operations and to prevent the realization of these risks or reduce the possible negative effects of these risks. In this context, the aim of this study is to analyze the articles and theses related to safety at sea in the national literature by means of the bibliometric method. The top five most frequently used keywords in these studies are respectively; “sea”, “safety”, “accident”, “work”, and “ship”. The MAXQDA 2022 program was used to find the frequency of the most used keywords and to compose the word cloud. The data of this research are articles and theses obtained from ULAKBİM TR Index, Google Academic, DergiPark, and YÖK Thesis databases. The data of this research consists of 88 studies prepared on the subject of safety at sea from 2008 to 2022. These studies include articles, non-thesis master's projects, and master's and doctoral theses. According to the research findings, after the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 entered into force in June 2012 and higher education programs were opened in this field, a significant increase is observed in the studies. 2019 was the year in which the most studies were conducted on the subject of safety at sea, with 16 studies. At the same time, among the universities in Turkey, Dokuz Eylül University is the only university that has done studies at all levels including articles, non-thesis master's projects, master's thesis, and doctoral thesis and it has been determined that this university has the highest number of studies with 17 studies on the subject of safety at sea, excluding articles.

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