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The Code of Labor Health and Safety and Its Purview
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Att. Alper Uzun
Going beyond the Labor Act numbered 4857, the Code of Labor
Health and Safety which provides for the numerous detailed regula-
tions concerning the labor health and safety is promulgated in the
Official Gazette in 30 June 2012. Some articles of the Code will enter
into force on the publish date, however, general provisions will be
enter into force 6 months after the publish date.
The Code regulates duty, competency, responsibility, right and
obligations of the employer and employees in order to establish labor
health and safety in the working place and to improve the present labor
health and safety conditions. The Code will be applied to all affairs,
working places, employers in those working places and its agent,
including apprentices and interns in the public and private sector
regardless of the area of activity. Today, the Code is such as to answer
a serious exigency and also this matter is emphasized in its purview.
Working life involves fullest extent of the maters such as labor,
working conditions, social security, vocational education, labor health
and safety. The article 49 of the Turkish Constitution stipulates
“Working is everyone’s right and obligation. State takes all the neces-
sary measures to protect employees and support working in order to
enhance the employees’ life standards, improve the occupational life.
State takes facilitating and protective precautions in order to establish
labor peace in employee-employer relations.”
Furthermore, the article
56 of the Constitution stipulates
“State provides the continuation of
everyone’s life in physical and mental health and it realizes the coop-
eration increasing savings and efficiency of man and material power.”
On this matter, concerning labor health and safety the United Nations
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Article of June 2012