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Occupational Health and Safety Glossary

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Electric high current facilities

It can be dangerous for humans, other living things and objects in some cases (approaching, touching, etc.) and involves the production of electrical energy, changing its properties, accumulation, transmission, distribution and conversion into mechanical energy, light, chemical energy, etc. These are facilities that enable energy to be converted and used.

Electrical Fitter or Plumber

It refers to electrical engineers, electrical or electrical-electronics engineers or electrical scientists who undertake the construction of electrical internal installations and are responsible to the relevant administrations for completion in accordance with the applicable laws, regulations, zoning plan, license and annex projects, Turkish Standards, technical specifications, regulations on occupational safety, all other relevant legislative provisions, science, art and health rules, and for the durability and qualifications of the installation, and for damages arising from irregular and untechnical construction.

Emergency

It refers to the events that are considered as disasters and the situations caused by carelessness, imprudence, negligence, intentionality and various reasons.

emergency plans

These are plans that show how and by whom the intervention, protection, search-rescue and first aid work and operations will be carried out in emergency situations and should be prepared before the emergency.

emergency team

It is the team that ensures the evacuation of people in the building in case of fire, earthquake and similar disasters, provides first aid, participates in search-rescue and extinguishing operations and applies first aid when necessary.

Employer Deputy

They are authorized persons who carry out the management duties of the business on behalf of the employer.

employment certificate

It is the document that the employer must give to the employee who leaves his job, showing the type of job and its duration.

environmental noise

It refers to harmful or undesirable outdoor sounds that occur as a result of human activities, including the noise emitted to the environment from transportation vehicles, road traffic, railway traffic, air traffic, maritime traffic, equipment used in open areas, construction sites, industrial facilities, workshops, workshops, workplaces and similar, as well as recreation and entertainment places.

environmental vibration

Mechanical oscillatory movements that occur during activities in volumes used for purposes other than those in buildings, such as mines and quarries, transportation vehicles, industrial and construction machinery, and are generally spread in solid, liquid and gaseous media and felt by the human body,

Equivalent noise level (Leq)

It refers to the constant level, which is the energetic equivalent of noise, whose levels change over a certain period of time, usually measured as the A-weighted sound level.

Ergonomics

It is a word of Greek origin. It is derived from the words Ergon and Nomos (Ergon, work, study; Nomos, law). Of man; It is to make it compatible with work by taking into account its physiological and psychological structure. The main goal is to both protect employee health and increase work efficiency with the most effective working force. Ergonomics is based on humans. It provides the necessary conditions for the adaptation of work to people and people to work.

Expert

It refers to a person who has acquired the knowledge, skills and work habits required by a profession and can apply them in the production of goods and services at standards acceptable to business life, can plan production, can solve problems that may be encountered during production, can express his thoughts in writing, verbally and visually, can make practical calculations related to production, and has a certificate of mastery.

Explosive

They are rapidly glowing solid, liquid, pasty, gelatinous substances that can give an exothermic reaction with sudden gas evolution without atmospheric oxygen and/or spontaneously explode upon heating when partially closed or explode under specified test conditions.

explosive atmosphere

It is a mixture formed by gas, vapor, fog and dust of flammable substances with air under atmospheric conditions and which can completely burn in contact with any ignition source.
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