Occupational Health and Safety Master’s Program

In the Occupational Health and Safety mater program, students are aimed to graduate with the knowledge and skills in terms of basic concepts and practices in occupational health and safety, and to engage their graduates in the work to improve the health level and quality of life of the employees.

Occupational Health and Safety is an element that takes care of occupational accidents and occupational diseases and encourages employees to work in safe environments and conditions and to improve both the work done and the work environment. The student who completes this program will receive a comprehensive education covering all these aspects.

In this program, students will get a comprehensive education covering following ares; the employer and the personnel responsible for the employees in the enterprises are required to identify any kind of effects that can cause accidents at the workplace, to take the necessary precautions, to determine the risks that can occur in the working environment and to avoid them, to analyze the risks that can not be avoided, to fight against risks, to improve the design of workplaces and work equipment, how to work and produce, to change the dangerous processes in the work environment to those that are not dangerous or less dangerous, and to develop a prevention policy, collective protection measures that the coherent and generic nature of the effects of factors related to technology, work organization, working conditions, social relations and working environment, personal protection and to give priority according to the measures, and to create workplace emergency plans.