Interdisciplinary Occupational Health and Safety Doctoral Program

Program Profile

International Labor Organization (ILO) data show that approximately 350,000 people worldwide die every year due to occupational accidents and approximately 1,700,000 people die due to occupational diseases. In the working life, where approximately 2,200,000 people lose their lives annually and approximately 600 people lose their lives daily, Occupational Health and Safety is one of the areas of work that needs to be addressed not only in the world but also in Turkey. Therefore, with the Occupational Health and Safety Law (Law No. 6331) published in the official gazette, professionals with occupational safety expertise certificate will provide the greatest support to the employer in occupational health and safety issues. Occupational health and safety professionals are specially trained, their professional competencies are secured and they are competent in the field of occupational health and safety. As in the private sector, public institutions and organizations are also obliged to employ occupational safety specialists. 

The occupational health and safety doctorate program is designed to train professionals who will assume the role of occupational safety specialist, who is obliged by law to work in private sector or public institutions and organizations. With the Law No. 6331 on Occupational Health and Safety, businesses are obliged to employ occupational safety personnel and in order to reduce accidents and occupational diseases by developing the culture and understanding of Occupational Health and Safety in our country, to gain the functionality of new scientific and technical applications in this field, to prevent occupational accidents by producing innovative solutions based on scientific perspective, to contribute to national and international publications on Occupational Health and Safety issues and to train qualified personnel needed by various sectors are the important goals of our doctoral program.

 

Message from the Head of the Department

Graduate education, one of the most important stages of professional education, will not only open the door to a lifelong academic life, but will also provide you with a love, dedication and depth towards the philosophy of professional knowledge. This approach will also provide you with competencies in knowledge management, innovative thinking, problem solving and knowledge transfer, and the acquisition of competencies will pave the way for professional critical thinking.
Our graduate programs, which can support your personal/social, educational/academic and career development and your well-being in daily life, are waiting for you, our valuable student candidates who are open to change, productive, adopt ethical principles, want to engage in scientific research and development activities that the country needs in the face of cultural, economic and technological changes.
Hope to see you and best regards...

 

Academic Staff of Interdisciplinary Occupational Health and Safety Doctoral Program
Prof. Dr. Murat DARÇIN Head of Department of Occupational Health and Safety	Prof. Dr. Mehmet ÇELİK Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Suat ÖZBİLEN Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fatma Didem TUNÇEZ Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Abdulkerim İLGÜN Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Süleyman Kamil AKIN Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Yalçın BOSTANCI Lecturer in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety