The role of Occupational Safety and Health in avoiding occupational accidents

As a result of scientific researches it has come out that being unconscious and uneducated are the most important causes of occupational accidents but also can be avoided. Occupational Safety and Health is a dynamic process and the effects of this imple-mentation in the process must always be questioned. The development of these implementa-tions from the past to the present and its current situation both in Turkey and all over the world must be examined. We can reach admissible results and the role of implementations in avoiding occupa-tional accidents if the differences of the Occupational Safety and Health implementations between countries and institutions are compared and associated with statistical data. At the end of these researches, the results will clearly show us how Occupational Safety and Health implementations are very important for a safe working area which is a result of security culture and consciousness gained by education.