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LEARNING ACTIVITY-1

AIM

You shall be aware of occupational health and safety. You shall be aware of risk factors

regarding 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 food drying 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. Workplaces with a certain number of employees have the obligation to
establish an OHS board and meet at varying intervals depending on the hazard class (less

dangerous: 1 in 3 months, dangerous 1 in 2 months, very dangerous once a month) and to
discuss and decide on the OHS needs and nonconformities 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 representative and employee

representatives varying according to the number of employees.

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