Examining the integration of occupational health and safety education into curriculum published by The Ministry of national education

The main purpose of occupational health and safety (OHS) is to create a healthy and safe working environment. Considering that people are the most important factor in the creation of a healthy and safe working environment, a society equipped with a safety culture is needed. In order to create a safety culture, health and safety training should be given at younger ages and awareness should be increased. In this context, necessary steps have been taken by the ministries in our country and cooperation has been made for the integration of the OHS course into education. In this study, it is aimed to examine the integration of occupational health and safety into education in the curriculum published by the Ministry of National Education. The study was carried out with the document analysis method, which is one of the qualitative research methods. As a data collection tool, the curricula published by the Ministry of National Education for pre-school, secondary education, high school and vocational education levels were used as documents and the data obtained were subjected to content analysis. In order to determine the reflection of the OHS subject areas in the curriculum of all courses, the curricula of each level were examined and the words of Health, Hazard, Risk, Safety, Precaution, Emergency, Safety, Protection, Occupational Health and Safety, Duties and Responsibilities, Equipment, Traffic rules determined as the unit of analysis. As a result of the study, when the achievements in the curriculum according to the occupational health and safety subject analysis units are examined, in the "Life Science, Guidance, Science, Physical Education and Game, Social Studies and Traffic Safety" courses of the Primary School Curriculum, the "Social Studies, Science, In the "Physical Education and Guidance" courses, some achievements were found in the "Physical Education, Chemistry, Guidance, Health Information and Traffic Culture, Geography and Physics" courses of the High School Curriculum. In addition, when we look at vocational education and training programs, gains regarding occupational health and safety subject areas have been found. However, one of the important findings in the study is that OHS is not included in the curriculum as a course in vocational education schools. It is recommended that the OHS course be included as a separate course in the curriculum vocational education in order to gain awareness of OHS in before the profession.