ÇANKAYA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE

2022 – 2023 Spring Semester   

ARCH 442 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY II     

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aslı ER AKAN Res. Assist: Yeliz Alevsaçanlar, Damla Yeşilbağ, Z. Ahsen Denizhan

Basic Course Information
Dear Students,
Starting from 2020 – 2021 Fall semester a new course; ARCH 442 “Occupational Health and Safety –II” will be conducted in our University. This document briefly gives the background of the course followed by weekly programs.
Higher Education Law (Law No: 2547, Article 5/ı) was amended on April 23, 2015 and Occupational Health and Safety courses are listed as COMPULSORY courses for the faculties - departments whose graduates are eligible to become an OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY SPECIALIST.
(Law No: 2547, Article 5/ı) (Amended: Article 3747/1-29/5/1991) In higher education institutions, Ataturk’s Principles and History of Turkish Revolution, Turkish language, foreign language and occupational health and safety are must courses at the faculties that train and educate students who will have the capacity to become occupational health and safety specialists when they graduate in accordance with Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 and dated 20/6/2012. In addition, one of the courses in physical education or fine arts are provided, which are not among must courses. All these courses are scheduled and applied for at least two semesters.
Occupational Health and Safety Law (Law No: 6331) defines the OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY SPECIALIST as:
Occupational safety specialist: any engineer, architect or technician who are authorized by the Ministry to work in the field of occupational health and safety and who have occupational health and safety expertise certificate.
This definition of OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY SPECIALIST includes all departments of Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Architecture. In addition, Physics, Chemistry and Biological Sciences departments of Faculty of Arts and Sciences are included.
The course will be given as an ONLINE course, with 14 different topics for the 14 weeks of the semester. Course Description
Within the scope of this course the responsibilities of government, employer and workers in health and safety. The effects of workplace on employees. The health and safety problems and their solution techniques in office and construction site, analysis and discussion of construction accidents, risk assessment methods, disaster and emergency management are included.

Course Objectives .
It is aimed to teach professional liability about occupational health and safety, to raise awareness about risks and hazards in construction sector, to teach how to analyze and evaluate the risks in workplace, to teach disaster and emergency management.