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LEARNING ACTIVITY-1

AIM

You will learn the definition of occupational health and safety and learn about its

importance. You will learn the risk factors related to occupational health and safety. You

shall learn to perform risk assessment and risk management for occupational safety.

RESEARCH

Do a preliminary research on occupational health and safety.

You shall study occupational health and safety procedures for aquaculture facilities.

1. What Is Occupational Health and Safety?
Occupational health and safety (OHS) is intensely used in business. OHS can be described

as “systematic and scientific studies in order to protect from possible hazardous conditions
at workplace during operation which may arise due to various reasons.

Occupational health and safety - OHS fact has been started to be handled mainly in

European Union dating from 1980’s. Occupational Health and Safety directive numbered
89/391/EEC has been accepted as framework directive and many individual directives

have been published with regard to this framework. Occupational Health and Safety code

numbered 6331 has been settled in 2012 in accordance with the European Union
harmonization process.

The purpose of occupational health and safety studies is to ensure the safety of workers,
production and business.

OHS is a teamwork. In workplaces with more than a certain number of employees, there is
an obligation to establish an OHS board and meet at varying intervals depending on the

hazard class (less dangerous: once in 3 months, dangerous once in 2 months, very

dangerous once a month), and discuss and decide on the OHS needs and non-compliances
of the enterprise. In general, the workplace doctor determines the nonconformities related

to occupational health, and the occupational safety expert determines the ones related to
occupational safety and presents them to the OHS board. The board also includes employer

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