Determination of occupational health and safety in leather manufacturing (laboraties), the Usage and awareness level of personel protective hardware and measurement of physical and chemicl risk factors: Examples of application in Uşak leather-mixed organized industry area

As a result of rivalry between businesses, the production rate is gaining more importance day by day. Qualified man power is significant to get a foothold in competitive market. Both technical training and education of occupational health safety is essential to form qualified man power fulfilling sector needs. Following that subject topic is determined as research on knowledge level of tannery personnel on occupational health safety and using personnel protective equipment. The population is leather firms in Usak mixed organized industrial zone while the target population of study is the firms working on different stages from unprocessed leather to processed leather. The study has been executed with 220 people. It has been made analysis of frequency, factor, Mann Withney U.,Kruskal Wallis, regression on source data using "Statistical Package for the Social Sciences " (SPSS) and findings has been interpreted. The study is important to determine current circumstances.