1. Kasım ÖZER General Director of OHS REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

2. CONTENT: Current Situation of Shipyard Industry in Turkey Employment Figure Problems and Solutions

3. SITUATION IN TURKEY SELLING ORDERS (2007) No. of Orders Turkey was taking 23 th place in 2002.

4. SITUATION IN TURKEY WorldTurkey Rate of Increase in Shipbuilding Industry (2003-2013 est.) 89 %360 % Number of Shipyards

5. EMPLOYMENT IN SHIPYARDS Additional Employment in Supply Industry 100.000 Workers SITUATION IN TURKEY

6. İSTANBUL46 YALOVA9 ZONGULDAK9 TRABZON8 İZMİT7 ÇANAKKALE2 ORDU1 SAMSUN1 KASTAMONU1 HATAY1 SAKARYA1 SHIPYARD DISTRIBUTION IN TURKEY

7. İSTANBUL – TUZLA REGION 46 active shipyards (54% of total), Full schedule until year 2012, 1,3 million m 2 working area for those 46, (twice of normal area for 1) Approx. 500 sub-contractors operate, Approx. 24.000 workers employed, Of 24.000 workers; 19.000 employed by sub-contractors, A number of unregistered workplaces.

8. FATAL ACCIDENTS YEARNo. of Deaths 20004 20011 20025 20033 20046 20057 200610 200712 200814 TOTAL62 TURKEY COUNTRY No. of Deaths / 10.000 MALAYSIA12 SINGAPORE10 TAIWAN10 CHINA10 JAPAN3 TURKEY3 USA2 SWEDEN1 ENGLAND1

9. BASIC PROBLEMS Small working areas, Overtime working, Insufficient OHS measures, Insufficient OHS and vocational trainings, Unregistered employment, Obstacles arising from sub-contracting, Lack of safety culture.

10. SPECIFIC PROBLEMS Lack of; Risk assessment applications, Training programs, Occupational health surveillance, Fire squads and exercises, Periodical controls for lifting equipments, Protection against electrical hazards, Protective activities for explosive atmospheres, PPE use.

11. SOLUTIONS Legislative activities, Occupational health and safety trainings for employers, OHS professionals and employees, Occupational exposure measurements, Continuous inspections on occupational health and safety, legal issues, Administrative fines, Suspending the operations of enterprises, Closure of workplaces.

12. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES Work Act 2003, Article 77, Obligations of employers: –Controlling whether the OHS measures are obeyed or not at the workplace, –Informing workers about occupational risks to be faced with, measures to be taken and their legal rights and responsibilities, –Ensure that the required OHS trainings are given to workers. SOLUTIONS

13. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES Amendments for Work Act 2008, –Vocational training obligation for those work in heavy and hazardous works defined in the related implementing regulation, –Written contract obligation between employer and sub- contractor, –Joint responsibility for sub-contractor with employer. SOLUTIONS

14. TRAININGS “Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards” 25.02.2008 DGOHS CASGEM (Training Unit of MoLLS) GISBIR (Turkish Shipbuilders’ Association) Dok-Gemi Is (Trade Union for Shipyard Workers)

15. “Protocol for Improving Occupational Health and Safety in Shipyards” SOLUTIONS Training Participants (March-April/2008) 95 Sub-contractor 39 Employer 102 Occ. safety expert 368 Engineer (August-2008) 17.000 Worker Measurements (March-September) 192 Heavy metal 379 Dust 27 Gas 72 Vibration 319 Noise

16. SOLUTIONS INSPECTIONS In last two years; Totally 203 inspection, Operations suspended in 19, 7 Closed, 2.300.000,00 TL (~ € 1.1 million) administrative fine applied to workplaces.

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