Researching the awareness level of the university academic staff in terms of occupational health and safety (Bayburt University example)

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS); It is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary concept that touches on scientific fields such as medicine, psychology, education, toxicology, ergonomics, physics, chemistry, economics, law, technology specific to various industries, activities. In addition to professional development, higher education institutions, which have an important place in ensuring social and cultural development, include classrooms, laboratories, workshops, offices, libraries and environments where health-culture-sports activities are carried out. These environments are used extensively by instructors and students. For this reason, the implementation of occupational health and safety practices in these environments and the awareness of occupational health and safety among employees will contribute to the health and safety of these environments for users, as well as positively reflecting on the importance of occupational health and safety practices in the professional lives of students who graduated from higher education institutions. This research, which was conducted to measure the occupational health and safety awareness of academic staff, is a descriptive field study, and resource scanning and survey methods, which are quantitative research techniques, were used. A new scale was prepared by reviewing the literature and taking expert opinions. The reliability of this scale was measured as alpha (α) value = 0.940. This result shows that the research is reliable. The survey was conducted online with academic staff working in different units of Bayburt University. In addition to 10 questions that determine the demographic characteristics of the participants, the questionnaire consists of 50 scale items to determine their awareness in terms of occupational health and safety. As a result of the study, the knowledge levels and awareness of the employees on OHS according to their different demographic (such as gender, marital status, title) characteristics are shown in the tables.