Bir bütün olarak iş sağlığı güvenliği ve yapı denetim mevzuatı: Yapı denetim görevlilerinin kamu inşaatlarında iş sağlığı güvenliği denetimine etkileri

Fundamental changes about public procurement system, building audit regulations and work environment are made between 2001 and 2012. With the added momentum of EU accession process during that period, it was aimed to enhance the safety of workers and properties in the construction sector by establishing healthy and safe working environments and effective audit mechanisms in line with EU norms and standards. In this context, procedures and principles about taking necessary precautions in health and safety at work and establishing an efficient inspection mechanism during conceptual design and construction period are reconsidered in order to build quality buildings in accordance with the development plans and standards, and in line with the rules of science, art and hygiene. Building audit regulations were redesigned with the law 4708 dated 2001; and public procurement system was redesigned with the laws 4734 and 4735 dated 2002. In 2003 the labor law 4857 entered into force by substituting the law 1475. The legal ground was tailored to become compatible with EU legislation by putting the occupational health safety law 6331 into force in 2012. Between the years 2001-2012 during which the legal infrastructure of Turkey was re-designed comprehensively, many amendments were made in the laws about public procurement system, building audit regulations and occupational health safety in order to ensure the harmony among the laws. Although public procurement system and building audit regulations within the health safety regulations were put into practice in early 2000’s, their preliminary impact could not be felt effectively until 4 April 2015, when the inspection law 6645 was issued. In this study, it is aimed to achieve an integrated evaluation of both groups of laws with respect to occupational health and safety. A survey is held in order to predict the tendency of building inspectors for occupational health safety at public construction projects. The rate of work-related accidents will be reduced considerably only when a control mechanism with a clearly defined area of responsibility is established is tasked to inspect health safety, along with health safety inspectors.