Occupational Safety and Risk Control in Construction and Metal Industry Sectors Erasmus Project

Project Title

Occupational Safety and Risk Control in Construction and Metal Industry Sectors

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

One of the main problems of the labor market is occupational health and safety (OHS). According to data from the International Labor Organization (ILO), there have been 340 million work accidents recently and 2 million people have lost their lives due to these accidents all over the world. (ILO 2013). In addition to increasing the costs of workers and employers, occupational accidents bring high costs to the national economy. The social security system must cover the entire community’s hospital costs and rehabilitation center costs. Professional accidents lead to a decrease in national development and welfare. The decrease in working days due to work accidents directly reduces the added value created in the country. This situation causes great losses in the country’s economy. For this reason, it is essential to act with the slogan ”prevention is cheaper and more humanistic than paying.
The Occupational Safety and Risk Control project in the Construction and Metal Industry Sectors will reduce labor and production losses. According to the Social Security Insurance statistics (2014), the disability period was determined as 2.065.962 days and the mortality rate due to 221.366 occupational accidents was 1.626. The total number of permanent disabilities is 42.857. Compared with some other countries, according to information received from Turkey Statistics Institution, work accidents in Turkey are critical situations.(Canada 0.81%, USA 0.83%, Japan 0.89%, Germany 1.5%, Poland 2). , 6%, North Korea 2.8%, Turkey 3.0%). When the data of occupational accidents are analyzed by sectors, it is seen that the most common occupational accidents occurred in the metal industry with 14.3 percent and in construction sectors with 14 percent, respectively. The importance of OHS has been growing both in Turkey and Europe. OHS is described in the status of Turkey in the EU progress report released in 2015. Turkey must implement more effective OSH content (EU progress report 2015). Turkey in the EU criteria (1989/391 / EEC) prepared in accordance with the main embodiment, is Law No. 6331. The EU’s framework guidelines include the improvement of OHS in workplaces and the prevention of employees and risks. 6571 (C167 – Construction and Safety Contract – according to ILO) has recently been approved to prevent construction accidents.
Many steps are being taken with developments in OHS, including technological infrastructure and hardware especially in Turkey. Many successes have been achieved by abandoning the education system with old technologies and many steps have been taken to improve both formal and non-formal education. However, this success has not been achieved in OSH in other fields yet . In this context, the Occupational Safety and Risk Control Project in the Construction and Metal Industry Sectors was implemented in order to increase the awareness of the Vocational High School students who are the main labor force of the sector and currently the employees and employers in the sector. The project is designed with a motto of identify, remove, reduce and control.
The metal industry has the highest work accident rates. This sector is classified in heavy and dangerous business classification. All employees in this sector should be selected from vocational training. However, as in all fields of vocational education, it also provides a basic level of OHS training in the field of metal. The high rate of occupational accidents in the sector indicates that the training provided is not sufficient. In this project, we focused on the quality training module which is in line with the requirements of the sector for the solution of OHS training problem.

A vocational training module has been developed in order to increase the awareness and knowledge of the students studying in the metal field of vocational high schools.The project will raise the awareness of vocational high school students. As a result of success among students, it will contribute to the development of the partner countries’ economy. The training module has also been developed for construction sector employees and employers. In this context, this project directly contributed to the vocational education of workers in metal and construction sectors. The project has aimed to raise awareness on OHS in non-formal education as well as formal education. The web portal developed in the project facilitated access to vocational training. The web platform has helped to identify and evaluate workplace risks and to identify and implement preventive actions, and to help employees’ professional careers and OHS awareness processes. The web portal is made easy to use and free online tools have been created for the target audience. The mobile version of the web portal has provided easy access to users and increased the diversity of educational environments.

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153892 Eur

Project Coordinator

OSTIM MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD
• CIAPE – CENTRO ITALIANO PER L’APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE
• TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH
• Provest Danismanlik Limited Sirketi