The Code aims the exercise the professions of employees’ without
having concerns of health and safety while they profess and also to cre-
ate a healthy and peaceful society alongside of efficiency.
Briefly, the Code prioritizes the employees’ health and safety at
work. However, when we scrutinize, it will be revealed that the Code
involves numerous regulations. The Code regulates the following
matters;
- The organization of the workplaces to provide a proper working
area
- The sufficiency and convenience of the air-conditioning, light-
ening, the level of noise and vibration and the other conditions
of workplace for the employees’ health
- Taking the convenient and sufficient precautions in order to pre-
vent the injuries caused by slip, fire, explosion, electric shock
and similar risks
- To provide the design, installation and usage of the machines,
tools and equipment in order to prevent diseases and accidents
- To take precautions for the labor health and safety when it is
compulsory to use dangerous materials which can cause disease
and accident
- To use the personal protection equipment provided by the
employer in circumstances where common protection measures
cannot be provided in order to prevent from risks
- Using vehicles special for the purpose in the employees’ transfer
- To design the common places such as cafeteria, rest room, etc.
in accordance with the necessities of employees
- To make the necessary arrangements depending on the type and
the place of work to determine the measures which will be
taken in the workplace
- To search ways and methods to adapt the work to employees’
changing physical and physiological conditions and if it is pos-
sible to apply those methods
- Making the work convenient for a person
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