Occupational health and occupational safety management system (OHSAS 18001) application and a sample company in turkish automotive sector

Within the development in technologies and innovations in business life, in the 21th century people still the most important resource of the plants. The importance of health and safety increases day by day. Managers should also think workers health, like thinking of their profitability end of every month.The aim of health and safety studies are protecting workers from industrial accidents, provide them healthy workplace. For decreasing lost caused by industrial accidents and occupational diseases the occurred the phrase of work safety. The general purpose of the occupational health and the occupational safety is to reduce the responsibilities of the employees, their families, factory and the other departments; and related with this, to prevent the damages on the country economy. The OHSAS 18001 which has developed to provide this, the effects and results of occupational health and safety management system on the occupational conditions and the way how to provide it, is the main topic of this work.In this study, initially the conceptual approaches are explained in order to evaluate the knowledge the human resources management and health and safety management. Later, will be analyzed as an example of company application. In this part company applications of health and safety will be showed and the effects of human resources management will be discussed.