Occupational accidents and diseases in turkish construction industry

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2007
Taşyürek, Yunus Emre
The aim of this thesis is to determine the state of occupational health and safety of the construction industry among other industries in Turkey. For this purpose, data such as the number of occupational diseases, the number of occupational injuries, the number of cases of permanent incapacity to work and the number of fatal occupational injuries in each industry are derived from official sources. The comparison of the construction industry with other industries in terms of occupational health and safety is made with the comparative measures calculated with these data. In addition, it is intended to determine some characteristics of the occupational injuries and victims in the construction industry. Therefore, the distribution of more than 22,700 data concerning occupational injuries according to some selected variables is taken into account.

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Y. E. Taşyürek, “Occupational accidents and diseases in turkish construction industry,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.