Psychosocial hazard and risks in occupational health and safety

Nowadays, pschyosocial aspect of occupational health and safety gains importance day by day. Determination and prevention of psychosocial hazard and risks seems to be ignored by The Occupational Health and Safety Law (No. 6331). In literature, the difference between pschyosocial risks and hazards is not identified adequately, in addition these two terms are confused to each other. Because the importance of pschyosocial factors in occupational health and safety is not understood enough, this situation cause to fail in observing and finding solution to the problems of workplace environment. In order to build healthy workplace atmosphere, these hazards and risks have to be prevented and eliminated. Pschyosocial hazards and risks cause stress, depression, suicide and distrupt the organization's function. It is aimed to point out the differences between two concepts, which are seemed to be complicated and confused to each other in the literature, with this thesis. In the application part of the thesis, it is targeted to measure consciousness level of workers of a firm, which operates in construction sector in Mersin, about pschyosocial hazards and risk concepts and to build awareness about these terms by applying questionnaire to the workers. SPSS Software Package was used for statistical analyses.