The effects of the engineers responsible for occupational health and safety in the construction sector on the prevention of occupational accidents

It is very important for the employees to be healthy and safe. The primary purpose of occupational health and safety; to protect the health of employees from the negative conditions of the workplace and from work accidents and occupational diseases. Thanks to the measures to be taken, both the employee's health will be protected and the employee will see that his / her health is valued, increase his / her loyalty to the workplace and increase his / her efficiency in the work environment. The purpose of this study is to determine the level of the practices in the construction sector in the province of Mersin regarding the precautions taken in Occupational Health and Safety. For this purpose, a survey survey was conducted on 100 engineers. As a result of the analyzes conducted, it was determined that the occupational health and safety implementations applied the emergency plan more. In addition, the perspective of the occupational health and safety practices of the engineers in the enterprises did not change according to the marital status, age, seniority and income.