Examination of smartphone applications developed for occupational HEALTH and safety

Smart technologies that emerged as a result of the rapid development of technology are used in different sectors such as health, nutrition, industry, art, tourism, sports, entertainment, trade, finance, education, as well as social and communication purposes. Due to the advantages of smart technologies, it is predicted that the usage areas may expand and be used more frequently in the coming centuries. Smart technologies are preferred due to their features such as being portable, providing ease of access and enabling the production of various contents. In this thesis, it is aimed to examine the smartphone applications that are compatible with Android and IOS operating systems, which have been developed so far in the field of occupational health and safety. In the study, the keywords "Occupational health and safety", "Occupational health and safety" and "occupational health and safety" were used and searches were made from Apple Store and Google Play Store stores. According to the keywords, 230 applications in the Apple Store, 574 mobile applications in the Google Play Store and a total of 804 mobile applications were included in the study. Mobile applications were examined in January-April 2022. As a result of the investigations; Mobile applications that are common/repeated according to keywords, applications whose content is not compatible with occupational health and safety, paid applications that do not open when downloaded to the phone, applications with less than 500 downloads were excluded from the research.As a result; 25 applications in the Apple Store and 37 applications in the Google Play Store, which are directly related to occupational health and safety, were determined and a total of 62 applications were examined in detail. Applications such as "ISG Uyum, OSGBizleme, NBYS IBYS-Control and Checks" have a score of 5.0. The second language option in almost all applications is English. Applications generally contain content related to auditing, incident reporting, legislation, training and risk assessment.