Evaluation of The Reflection of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Türkiye 2020 Occupational Accidents Statistics

Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the countries of the world and Türkiye continue to struggle both in terms of social life and in terms of economic terms. Due to the rapid spread of the virus and the increase in deaths as a result, this process was tried to be overcome with a full shutdown in 2020 for a long time. With the full shutdown, employees have been away from production for a long time and therefore there has been a decrease in the number of days worked and even in the hours worked. In this article, it is aimed to reveal whether there is a decrease in the number of work accidents due to the fact that the employees are away from production in 2020 and the number of working days has decreased compared to other years. The data set for the years 2018-2020, which will ensure the realization of this purpose, has been obtained from the Social Security Institution Statistics annuals. In particular, incidence rate of occupational acci-dents/injuries, weight rate of occupational injuries, standardize and mortality occupational accidents rate and the effect of the pandemic on work accidents were revealed. when the data is analyzed, it was deter-mined that there was no decrease in work accidents due to the pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018 and 2019, in fact, the reduction or stopping of production due to the pandemic did not have an effect on work accidents.