Occupational health organization and occupational health practitioners

Protection of workers’ health and security, in association with working relations, is a must of social state and is a natural result of right to survive. Making healthier working conditions of workers is obligated for preventing industrial accidents and occupational diseases. Employer is responsible for protection of the workers in working conditions. It is duty of the government to make necessary organizations, to provide coordination and to check the application for this purpose. It is required in the first step that occupational health care should be provided by occupational health care practitioners who are employed by the employer. In occupational health care units, is the most important task in protection of occupational health care diverted to occupational health care practitioners who work due to employer. Existence of rights and guarantee suitable for the importance of the task of the occupational health care practitioners is also the assurance of occupational health care. It is required that the health care practitioners’ contracts and payment should be controlled. Sufficiency of the institutions providing technical support to occupational health care units (for the second step) and occupational disease hospitals (for the third step) and coordination of these occupational health care units are important. Control of occupational health care application should be organized separately and should work in coordination with the three mentioned steps. Control should be done by medical work inspectors. In the countries that are modelling for social state applications, is the occupational health care organization considered as a whole for providing and controlling the service. Thus it works according to these principles. Occupational health care organization doesn’t have a sufficient qoutient in Turkey. Organization of occupational health care units, with the exception of big factories, do not exist. Occupational guarantee of occupational health care practitioners which enables them for their medical freedom is not provided. Workers health instutions and occupational disease hospitals are not enough. There isn’t any coordination among the responsible institutions and occupational health care applications are not controlled adequately. Occupational accidents are highly over the mean of the world records and occupational diseases can not be diagnosed. Occupational health care organization should be provided promptly by the addition of social sides and related institutions. Working of the occupational health care practitioners for the proper purposes and organization of occupational health care should be organized strictly by law and promptly vitalized. In my study, it is aimed to organize occupational health care, to detect to problems of the occupational health care practitioners and evaluate and solve these problems.