Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS

1. REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS

2. CONTENT: • Current Situation of Shipyard Industry in Turkey • Employment Figure • Problems and Solutions

3. SITUATION IN TURKEY SELLING ORDERS (2007) No. of Orders Turkey was taking 23th place in 2002.

4. SITUATION IN TURKEY Number of Shipyards

5. 100.000 Workers Additional Employment in Supply Industry SITUATION IN TURKEY EMPLOYMENT IN SHIPYARDS

6. SHIPYARD DISTRIBUTION IN TURKEY

7. İSTANBUL – TUZLA REGION • 46 active shipyards (54% of total), • Full schedule until year 2012, • 1,3 million m2 working area for those 46, (twice of normal area for 1) • Approx. 500 sub-contractors operate, • Approx. 24.000 workers employed, • Of 24.000 workers; 19.000 employed by sub-contractors, • A number of unregistered workplaces.

8. FATAL ACCIDENTS TURKEY

9. BASIC PROBLEMS • Small working areas, • Overtime working, • Insufficient OHS measures, • Insufficient OHS and vocational trainings, • Unregistered employment, • Obstacles arising from sub-contracting, • Lack of safety culture.

10. SPECIFIC PROBLEMS Lack of; • Risk assessment applications, • Training programs, • Occupational health surveillance, • Fire squads and exercises, • Periodical controls for lifting equipments, • Protection against electrical hazards, • Protective activities for explosive atmospheres, • PPE use.

11. SOLUTIONS • Legislative activities, • Occupational health and safety trainings for employers, OHS professionals and employees, • Occupational exposure measurements, • Continuous inspections on • occupational health and safety, • legal issues, • Administrative fines, • Suspending the operations of enterprises, • Closure of workplaces.

12. SOLUTIONS LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES • Work Act 2003, Article 77, Obligations of employers: • Controlling whether the OHS measures are obeyed or not at the workplace, • Informing workers about occupational risks to be faced with, measures to be taken and their legal rights and responsibilities, • Ensure that the required OHS trainings are given to workers.

13. SOLUTIONS LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES • Amendments for Work Act 2008, • Vocational training obligation for those work in heavy and hazardous works defined in the related implementing regulation, • Written contract obligation between employer and sub-contractor, • Joint responsibility for sub-contractor with employer.

14. SOLUTIONS TRAININGS “Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards” 25.02.2008 • DGOHS • CASGEM (Training Unit of MoLLS) • GISBIR (Turkish Shipbuilders’ Association) • Dok-Gemi Is (Trade Union for Shipyard Workers)

15. SOLUTIONS “Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards” Measurements (March-September) 192 Heavy metal 379 Dust 27 Gas 72 Vibration 319 Noise Training Participants (March-April/2008) 95 Sub-contractor 39 Employer 102 Occ. safety expert 368 Engineer (August-2008) 17.000 Worker

16. SOLUTIONS INSPECTIONS In last two years; • Totally 203 inspection, • Operations suspended in 19, • 7 Closed, • 2.300.000,00 TL (~ € 1.1 million) administrative fine applied to workplaces.

17. THANK YOU www.isggm.gov.tr kozer@csgb.gov.tr