Investigation of distribution and responsibilities of occupational health and security experts who are working at common health and security units in Turkey

Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to work in the workplace determined by his own free choice and in fair and favorable working conditions". Although occupational health and safety is considered as a new field in business life, its emergence is as old as human history. OHS work is a system that is needed in every sector where people and machines are involved in. In ancient history, people were taking all the necessary measures to ensure both a more efficient production and the safety of life and property according to their jobs and areas of production. As the welfare level of societies increased, the tendency to the need of professional support increased rather than experiential learning. Occupational health and safety has ceased to be an experiential field and has completely become a training and service sector. This research has three main goals. Firstly;it is given that the legal basis of occupational health and safety studies as a whole in the form of laws, regulations and communiques. Secondly; it is aimed to provide not only a general perspective for all OHS professionals and occupational safety experts but also providing guidance to those who want to choose this section. The objective end of the study is that comparing the years of 2016-2019 with numbers of Turkey's OSH profile as in our country, occupational health and safety services is gaining momentum day by day. This work covers all OSGB and OHS professionals operating in 81 provinces. Occupational health and safety records, tracking and monitoring programs, Turkey's A, B, C class safety experts, occupational physician, other health care providers are investigated by comparing the last three years of data of the common health and safety unit that our country's developmental process in the sector.