International Conference on Eurasian Economies
9-11 September 2015 – Kazan, RUSSIA
Paper detail
Paper ID : 1190
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Law
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Faruk Andaç
Session : 3D Hukuk II
Occupational Health, Safety and Unionization in Mining Businesses
Maden İşyerlerinde İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Önlemleri ve Zorunlu Sendikalaşma
- Prof. Dr. Faruk Andaç (Çağ University, Türkiye)
Abstract
Turkey has had two major mine accidents recently. In 2014, three hundred and one (301) miners died in the Soma coal mine accident and about five months later, in October 2014, eighteen miners lost their lives in Ermenek. In June 2012, a new Occupational Health and Safety Law entered into force. Although this law brought serious clauses for the organizations to take precautions to prevent such accidents, it was not applied properly for some reasons. First, it was ignored by the businesses as it brought financial burden for them. Second, workers could not express their views individually because they did not have a union to do it for them. The third and most important reason was that; businesses were not inspected properly. As a result of these accidents, The Turkish Grand National Assembly approved the ILO Mine Workers’ Health and Safety Agreement No. 176 in December 2014. Before Turkey, this agreement had been approved by 29 countries among 185 ILO members including Zambia, USA, Finland, Albania and Germany. These frequent mine accidents get serious reactions from the public. Therefore, unionization must be compulsory in mine businesses and inspections must be more effective.
JEL codes: K31
Andaç, Faruk (2015). "Occupational Health, Safety and Unionization in Mining Businesses" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2015, pp.601-605, Kazan, RUSSIA.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C06.01190
