Abstract:

The conscious level of occupational health and safety of the employee in the landscaping unit, who are responsible for the university campus sites’ being clean, healthy and tidy, has an important role in their being confident and successful in their workplace environment. This study has been planned and conducted to determine the conscious level of the personnel working in the landscaping unit. The personnel working landscaping unit in Atatürk University are included in the scope of study.(n=64) The data of the study was collected in October- November 2014. The personnel taking part in this study are male and 46,9% of them are in 41-50 age group. Employment duration of the personnel varies from 1 year to 26 years and 48.8% of them work for 26 years. At the end of the study, it has been determined that most of the personnel (84,4% ) have taken the basic training of occupational health and safety. When the personnel’s opinions on occupational health and safety is analysed, their expressions are as follow; the highest proportion state ‘our workplace’s institutive knowledge about occupational health and safety is insufficient ‘(48,4%), ‘my workplace is in the least dangerous workplace class ‘(43,4%), ‘our workplace wasn’t arranged to protect our physical health’ (70,3%), ‘In the department I work, there isn’t any technical substructure related to prevent occupational accidents and wounding (57,8%), ‘sufficient safety precautions haven’t been taken in the unit I work’ (53,1%) ‘ some precautions have been taken to regulate the weakness on occupational safety by enterprise management’ (71,9%), ‘In our workplace, the factors threatening our health are being ignored’ (50,0%),’ In the precautions of occupational accidents the biggest cause of the accident chain is insecure conditions ‘(67,2%), ‘teamwork is the most important element in occupational health and safety’ (65,6%), ‘ we should be more educated to play an effective role in occupational health and safety’ (54,7).

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