Maden sektörü iş sağlığı ve güvenliği mevzuatının karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmesi ve değerlendirilmesi

In the 18th century, with the industrial revolution, mechanization increased in mines. Working conditions in these mine operations were heavy, work accidents occurred often, and body power was used excessively at that time. Due to the increasing world population and industrialization, the demands for mines and metals have increased and the issue of occupational health and safety, which was not emphasized much in the first place, caused an increase in financial losses in the developed countries. It has come to the fore more after major disasters in which many people died in mining accidents. These issues have also brought about a decrease in production and efficiency. In order to increase productivity, enacting laws related to occupational safety and improving the safety performance was taken into consideration. In Turkey, the law numbered 6331, which was adopted and entered into effect in 2012 for the purpose of alignment with the European Union on occupational health and safety, is the most comprehensive study on occupational safety to date in this country. However, these changes did not provide the desired decline in occupational accidents as expected. In this study, United States and Australia were selected as two countries with better occupational safety track records for comparison with Turkey. Mining-related legislation and statistics belonging to these countries have been compared and evaluated with Turkey's legal regulations and occupational performance in this field. Finally, the effect of legal legislation on occupational safety in mining was discussed and suggestions were presented.