Annual report of Health and Safety Labour Watch released: In 2019 at least 1736 workers lost their lives

Report on Work Murders in 2016: In Turkey, at least 1970 workers are murdered in 2016! Workers’ Health and Work Safety Assembly (Turkey) – WHSA (İşçi Sağlığı ve İş Güvenliği Meclisi) […]

On 28th of October, in Ermenek district of Karaman Province, 18 workers trapped in the mine which is owned by Has Şekerler Mining, because of a flood. Enough is enough! The subcontracting system has to be ended immediately; all the mines have to be run by public institutions!

While the pain of massacre of 301 mineworkers in Soma is still fresh for us, now there is a new massacre in the middle of Istanbul. 10 workers were killed at #TorunlarCenter construction

Tahir Kara, Hıdır Ali Genç, İsmail Sarıtaş, Bilal Bal, Cengiz Tatoğlu, Murat Usta, Menderes Meşe, Vahdet Biçer, Ferdi Kara and Cengiz Bilgi were killed at a construction site in Istanbul.

Dr. Tellioğlu argues that OHS is a human right and Occupational Diseases arise in most cases “because employers avoid costs to secure decent working conditions. In the current system, the OHS professionals are paid by the employers directly, and they are not organised in unions and have no guarantee against dismissal, just like most other employees in Turkey.