The State Subsidy In Occupational Health And Safety Services In Turkey

Abstract

Employers avoid to serve occupational health and safety servives at the workplaces because of many reasons, one of the most important reasons is the cost of the obligations. But the cost is not an acceptable excuse to avoid the obligations because they arise from public law and protect the health, and the life integrity of workers, and cost shall not be accepted as an excuse when the health of the workers is concerned. As a result of which state subdsidies are regulated in the Occupational Health and Safety Act for the small workplaces. Thus, the workers of them will not be deprived of the occupational health and safety protection. The state subsidy shall be financed by the Social Security Institution.