Application of occupational health and safety in the primaryschools and determination of primary school teacher'knowledge on this i̇ssue: Example of Igdir province

The purpose of this study is to determine the occupational health and safety self-efficacy perceptions of primary teachers working in Iğdır province. An important factor in the selection of this study was the absence of an academic study on occupational health and safety self-efficacy perceptions of primary teachers working in Iğdır province until 2020. A questionnaire form was created for the research by researching the scale development studies. The draft questionnaire, which was developed after expert opinion, spelling rules checks, was first applied to 110 classroom teachers and then factor analysis was performed. After completing the reliability calculation phase, the final version of the questionnaire was revealed. The universe of the research consists of 708 primary teachers working in Iğdır province. Within the scope of the research, no sampling was made, and the researcher tried to reach the whole universe voluntarily. The 366 primary teachers who voluntarily participated in the study constitute the final sampling of the research. Occupational Health and Safety knowledge levels of primary teachers, service durations, working conditions, and previous OHS training are the independent variables of the research. The expressions of primary teachers regarding the perception of Occupational Health and Safety self-efficacy constitute the dependent variable of the study. The data obtained from the research were analyzed and interpreted statistically. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 21.0 program was used for this. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and percentage were used to analyze the data. In the difference analysis, a t-test for two independent variables and analysis of variance for more than two independent variables were used. As a result of the research; It was concluded that the Occupational Health and Safety knowledge level of the primary teachers was high, their self-efficacy perceptions differ significantly according to the length of service and working status, and there was no significant difference between their previous occupational health and safety training. Key Words: occupational health, safety, safety culture, scale, school