How Much Important is the Risk Assessment? “Employer’s Point of View”

According to the Law on Occupational Health and Safety No. 6331 dated 30/06/2012, one of the important obligations of an employer is to make / have a 'Risk Assessment'. Besides the risk assessment, it is the employer's obligation to provide the occupational health and safety precautions that should be taken according to the risk assessment result, as well as the protective equipment to be used. Given the responsibility in this regard, employers should be familiar with the general information on risk assessment, such as the risk assessment team, periodic renewal period of the risk assessment according to hazard class, deadline, criminal sanctions if the risk assessment does not performed; they should examine the risk assessment prepared by the experts in detail; and they should have knowledge about the precautions that should be taken. If the employers do not place the necessary importance on the risk assessments prepared in order to eliminate or minimize the risks by taking the required precautions, the analysis will be on paper and not reach its real target. In this study, it was aimed to determine whether or not a risk assessments for less dangerous, dangerous and very dangerous workplaces in Gümüşhane was made, risk assessment knowledge of the employers and to what extent they examined the risk analyses prepared for their workplaces.