COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IŞG 7039 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Law and Social Security Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR COŞKUN SARAÇ

Offered to

Labour Law and Social Security Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

It is aimed to introduce students characteristics, principales and rules ofoccupational health and safety in general. By the help of this education, students will be able to immobilize the situation (due diligence) encountered all kind of occupational accident and disease. Also by expalining main characteristics of employer's obligation to take the measures of occupational health and safety it is aimed to recognize the legal problems encountered in work-life and to provide students solve this cases by the help of their knowledge.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define employer's obligation of taking measures of occupational
2   Being able to understand fault-based and strict liability of the employer and determine its limits
3   Being able to determine the provisions of occupational health and safety
4   Being able to determine the concepts and conditions of occupational accident and diseas and comprehend bounden procedure
5   Being able to acquire expertise on the occupational health and safety subject by examining the decisions of the Supreme Court and changes in legislation

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Dominated properties and principaled of labor law and basic concepts
2 Basic concepts (Work place, Entreprise, Sub-Contractor)
3 Scope of labor law, definition and types of Employment Contract, Obligations in general
4 Obligations of taking meuasures occupational health and safety of the employer and liability of the employer
5 Tripartite labor relations and liability of the employer related to such relations
6 Occupational and safety at work provisions and regulations
7 Mid-term exam
8 Criticism of judicial decisions
9 Duities and responsibilities of the employer related to Occupational health and safety rules
10 Occupational safe and health audit
11 Suspention of work or closing down of the workplace
12 Occupational health and safety committee and Jobsite doctors
13 Rights of employees and their obligations
14 Harmonization Process of the European Union and relevant legal provisions

Recomended or Required Reading

AVCI, Adnan: Iş Yerlerinde Işçi Sağlığı ve Iş Güvenliği Mevzuatı
SÜZEK, Sarper: Iş Güvenliği Hukuku

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Ensuring students' participation in the course by processing the course in the form of Q&A; examining the decisions of the Supreme Court;review of the legislation together when the subject is discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Coşkun SARAÇ
E-Mail : coskun.sarac@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 6 78
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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