Major of Occupational Health and Safety

My name is Mustafa Berkan Biçer. I have been working as a Faculty Member in the Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of our university since 2018. Occupational Health and Safety, which in essence focuses on occupational accidents and occupational diseases and generally aims for employees' health and for them to work in a safe environment, is a scientific discipline that has a significant place in developed countries. Work in the field of occupational health and safety in our country has gained a lot of importance with the laws that have been put into effect. With law no 6331, it has become mandatory to enlist an occupational health and safety specialist or to contract an occupational health and safety specialist regardless of the number of employees. Trainings given at the undergraduate level by formal education programmes fail to provide sufficient education to work in the field of occupational health and safety. Hence, our university has opened Occupational Health and Safety Department Program with and without thesis within the body of Graduate Education Institute. Our programme accepted its first students in the fall semester of 2019-2020 academic year. The programme has an interdisciplinary quality. The aim of the programme is to educate experts in the field of occupational health, occupational health and safety with adequate knowledge, who can think analytically as well as contributing to the development of the country in this regard and meeting the sectoral demands. All students with a bachelor's degree can apply for the programme; however, in accordance with the law, graduates of departments Engineering and Architecture of Engineering and Architecture Faculties, departments of Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Faculties of Science-Literature, Faculties of Agriculture and Faculties of Technology, are entitled to enter the class B exam to be an occupational safety expert directly. We aim to convey adequate information and experience to our students with our academic staff in the Department of Occupational Health and Safety. If you believe that health and safety come first, we are expecting you in our programme. We would be happy to see those who wish to come to Izmir Bakırçay University among us.