1. Unit OHS Officer

PLACE IN THE ORGANIZATION: He/she is assigned by the relevant unit supervisor for OHS activities in his/her unit and works in cooperation with the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator.

DUTIES, AUTHORITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Determining the necessary processes related to OHS for the unit (waste management, trainings, etc.) and ensuring their implementation and maintenance,
• Reporting the deficiencies of the unit on OHS and its needs for improvement to the unit supervisor and the Coordinator,
• Ensuring that the concept of OHS safety culture and student orientation is recognized and disseminated throughout the campus,
  
• To perform similar duties to be assigned related to OHS.
• Monitoring the activities carried out in accordance with ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standards, increasing knowledge and awareness of environmental awareness through trainings and exercises, monitoring environmental legal permit documents

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION:  
To be assigned by the supervisor of the unit.

 2. OHS Coordinator 

PLACE IN THE ORGANIZATION : Works under the Vice Rector for Research and Planning.
DUTIES, POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator is responsible for ensuring coordination between all academic and administrative units of the university regarding the following duties of the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator.

• The Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator coordinates the activities of the teams working under the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator,
  
• To plan, organize, lead, coordinate and control the work of the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator, engineers and officers in the coordinatorship,
• Preparing, revising, publishing, recording and distributing documents,
  
• Preparing the inputs for the monthly OHS Senior Board meeting, holding the meeting, writing the decisions taken and distributing them to the units or assigning personnel from the unit to do so,
• To ensure that OHS targets are set and target-based performance measurements are made,
• To carry out the necessary work on measuring the performance of the processes,
• To prepare an occupational health and safety training plan,
  
• To lead the planning of risk assessment studies,
• To evaluate occupational accidents and occupational diseases that may occur in the workplace, to make the necessary preventive action plans and to follow up the implementation,
• Coordinating and controlling the activities of occupational health and safety units,
• To evaluate the activity reports from the units at the end of each activity period and submit them to the Board.
• To support "University without Barriers" studies on occupational health and safety issues,
• To supervise whether sub-employers take the necessary measures regarding the health and safety of their own employees in accordance with the provisions of the Law, the relevant legislation and this directive.
• To perform other duties specified in the YTU OHS Directive and/or assigned by the Vice Rector for Research and Planning

 QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION:   The Coordinator is appointed by the Rector from among the academic staff of the university for a period of three years.

3. OHS Deputy Coordinator

POSITION IN THE ORGANIZATION : Works under the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator.

DUTIES, AUTHORIZATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Deputy Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator fulfills the duties assigned by the Coordinator. The Deputy Coordinator is responsible to the Coordinator. He/she deputizes the Coordinator when necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THE POSITION: 

To have a certificate of Occupational Safety Expertise,                                                                                               

Working in the organization for at least 2 years.         

 4. Occupational Safety Specialist

PLACE IN THE ORGANIZATION : Works under the Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator.

DUTIES, AUTHORIZATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To advise the employer to ensure that the planning, organization and execution of work, including the design, condition, maintenance, selection and selection of machinery and other equipment and the materials used, the selection, supply, use, maintenance, storage and testing of personal protective equipment are carried out in accordance with occupational health and safety legislation and general occupational safety rules in relation to the work carried out and changes to be made in the workplace.
• To ensure that a risk assessment is carried out; to make recommendations to the employer on the health and safety measures to be taken by planning the necessary studies and to follow up.
• To monitor the working environment, to work in coordination with the OHS Coordinatorship on the planning of periodic maintenance, controls and measurements to be carried out in terms of occupational health and safety in the workplace and to control their implementation.
• To carry out activities in accordance with the legislation to prevent accidents, fires or explosions in the workplace and to follow the practices; to ensure the preparation of emergency plans for situations such as natural disasters, accidents, fires or explosions, to have trainings and drills carried out in coordination with the Civil Defense Expertise, to ensure that they are acted in accordance with the emergency plan.
• To plan and implement occupational health and safety trainings in accordance with the relevant legislation.
• To record the work related to the surveillance of the working environment and prepare an annual evaluation report.
• Notifying the coordinatorship and/or the OHS Supreme Board when it detects an issue that poses an imminent and life-threatening danger to employees in workplace buildings and annexes, working methods and forms or work equipment,
• To temporarily stop work, provided that the employer or the employer's representative obtains the approval of the employer or the employer's representative, if an issue that poses an imminent and life-threatening danger identified in the workplace requires urgent intervention.
• To conduct inspections and research on occupational health and safety in all parts of the workplace, to access the necessary information and documents and to meet with employees.
• To communicate with relevant institutions and organizations within the knowledge of the employer and OHS Coordinatorship on matters required by his/her duty and to cooperate in accordance with the internal regulations of the workplace.
• Occupational safety experts are obliged not to disrupt the normal flow of work as much as possible and to contribute to the provision of an efficient working environment, to keep confidential information about the professional secrets, economic and commercial situation of the employer and the workplace while performing their duties.
• The occupational safety specialist must notify the Occupational Safety Coordinator or his/her deputy of his/her findings and recommendations regarding the work carried out in the workplace where he/she is assigned, and must fill out and sign the form numbered FR-1155 or FR-1191 and give it to the relevant personnel of the Coordination Office.
• Perform similar duties to be assigned by the OHS Executive Committee and/or OHS Coordinatorship.

• In addition to all these duties, to fulfill the duties specified in Article 9 of the Regulation on the Duties, Authorities, Responsibilities and Training of Occupational Safety Experts.
  QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED BY THE TASK:  To meet the requirements of the Regulation on the Duties, Authorities, Responsibilities and Trainings of Occupational Safety Experts.