WORKPLACE INSPECTIONS IN TURKEY CONDUCTED WITHIN THE SCOPE OF ILO LABOR INSPECTION CONVENTION

Abstract

One of the problems that emerged with industrialization in the world is the fact that the health and safety of workers is at risk. Unfortunately, Turkey does not show sufficient sensitivity to this issue. Therefore, thousands of our employees have work accidents every year. Before or after work accidents, inspectors of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security proactively carry out inspections on behalf of occupational safety in order to prevent these bad consequences. In this study, the situation analysis of workplace inspections carried out within the scope of ILO Convention No. 81 on labor inspection after the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Law No. 6331 was conducted. For this purpose, data on inspections are taken from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security Guidance and Inspection Directorate Activities and Social Security Institution Statistical Yearbooks. The data set was created to cover the period between 2013-2022 in order to observe the impact of the OHS Law No.6331 on business inspections in the 10-year period from the date of entry into force. Work accidents were examined by creating hypotheses using the data of the number of inspections, the number of workers reached during the inspections, the causes of work accidents examined in the inspections, the number of active insured people and the number of employees, and these data were evaluated with correlation analysis, which is one of the quantitative research methods. As a result, it was calculated that the number of labor inspections in Turkey is very low, insufficient in terms of occupational accidents, and has an average impact of 2.37% in terms of OHS. In future studies, a point of view has been put forward for theoretical and applied research to increase this effect and the existence of a different situation for the prevention of work accidents in Turkey has been pointed out.