Özet:

Employees have faced many woek and woekplace hazards with industrialization and technological advances. These factors caused by work and workplace seen in the work areas cause harm to employee health. Especially the Covid-19 Pandemic caused great damage to the health of the employees, and there were even employees who lost their lives in this process. With the application of occupational health and safety rules, protection of employees against risks becomes possible. Here, the most basic task falls to the employer. As a matter of fact, the Occupational Health and Safety Law no. 6331 generally imposes responsibility on the employer in terms of occupational health and safety. Accordingly, the employer is obliged to pay maximum attention and care in terms of protecting the health of the employees and ensuring the work safety. These regulations are also a requirement of the employer’s protection and supervision obligations. In this study, an examination has been made on the employer’s protection and surveillance obligations within the scope of the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 in the context of Covid-19 and how it will fulfill these obligations. In this way, an answer has been sought to the question of what kind of protection can be provided to employees against the Covid-19 epidemic within the scope of the employer’s protection and survaillance obligations.