Changes in the Occupational Health and Safety Behavior in 21st Century Mining in Turkey

Abstract

While striving to increase human well-being, new risks will continue to appear in return for this effort.Although, the technology offers innovations, it has also brought new challenges with it. The need for raw materials hasincreased, due to the effort of people to increase their luxury and quality of life. Thus, there have been revolutions inmining and mechanization has increased for more production. Although the number of employees decreased with theincrease in the number of machines, people who started working with the machines met new problems. Increasingmechanization in mining has created new dangers. Every mining activity where precautions are weak has also createdmajor problems for human health. With the emergence of the principles and increase in the application of occupationalhealth and safety, their problems have decreased and people have achieved a healthier living environment.