Abstract:

This study aims to investigate the level of the safety culture of firefighters and the factors that affect the safety culture, and to find out the answers to the questions on which areas the safety of firefighters can be developed, and what can be done in these areas. In this study, the safety culture questionnaire developed by S. Williams in 2007 as a measurement tool is applied to 209 fire brigades, and the safety culture level of the participants is determined by statistical analysis. In order to determine the significance level of the relationship between the participants' responses to the safety culture questionnaire and the determined 11 hypotheses, the chi-square test is used, and the results are analyzed under three categories. As a result, a significant difference is found between the safety culture of firefighters, their education levels and occupational accidents. There is also a significant difference between the firefighters' accident situations and their ranks.

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