Occupational health and safety practices in water and sewage services

In metropolitan cities, water and canal failure, maintenance and repair, canal and warehouse cleaning, subscriber connection, network production and canal construction works, which are among the drinking water and sewerage services, are carried out by water and sewerage administrations.These administrations, which are responsible for carrying out water and sewerage services, are obliged to take occupational health and safety measures to reduce the occupational safety risks of their employees and to prevent work accidents, to monitor and supervise whether the measures taken are followed and to ensure that non-compliances are corrected.In this study, as an example, the occupational health and safety organizational structure of the General Directorate of TESKI and the occupational health and safety management system applied in the administration are examined and the studies carried out are included.The effectiveness of the organizational structure and management system was questioned by examining the occupational accidents that occurred in the General Directorate and the necessary precautions were determined.