Abstract:

A significant problem of working life is to ensure the employee’s health and safety in the workplace and to create the opportunity to work in a healthy workplace. The fundamental purpose of occupational health and safety is to protect employees by minimizing the risks of accidents and diseases before these risks occur. In order to ensure the occupational health and safety effectively, it is important to carry out inspections and to take precautions by the employer in case of risks. A significant element of this aim is to ensure the professional independence of the occupational safety specialists. Although legal regulation and a limited legal guarantee stated in the legislation on professional independence, it is difficult to say that the independence of specialists has fully achieved. In particular, the absence of an efficient employment security to protect occupational safety specialists against termination and the payment of their wages have executed by the employers are the factors that negatively affect the ability to fulfill their duties within professional independence. In our study, our main purpose is to explore the independence of occupational safety specialists, to identify the problems arising in this field and to seek solutions to these problems.

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