Evaluation of sectors in context of risks caused by occupational accidents with fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods

Unfortunately, occupational accidents encountered in production and service processes that started with the industrial revolution and continue until today cannot be completely prevented. When the causes of occupational accidents are examined, it is seen that the causes arising from environmental conditions and employees have a significant place in the total occupational accidents. This shows that, in fact, many work accidents can be eliminated or at least their effects can be minimized with simple precautions to be taken or rules to be followed. However, when we look at the occupational accidents that have occurred in recent years and have caused many people to die, it has been determined that the occupational accidents in question differ from sector to sector. For this reason, one of the main starting points of this study is the question of whether occupational accident risks, which cause outputs that may result in serious death or injury in some sectors, pose the same level of danger in another sector. Within the scope of this thesis study, firstly the concept of work accident and the causes of work accident were discussed, and then the risk factors causing work accidents were revealed in the direction of comprehensive literature review and expert opinions. After the identification of these risk factors, the distribution of occupational accidents in Turkey according to sectors was examined and it was decided which sectors to focus on. In the last part, which aims to evaluate the effects and results of the determined occupational accident risks on the basis of sectors, an evaluation was made by making use of Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods, which allows to analyze the effects of more than one risk factor. When the outputs are examined, it has been determined that the construction sector is the sector most affected by the risks that cause work accidents in the context of the selected sectors, followed by the metal / manufacturing and mining sectors, respectively.