ABSTRACT

Globalization is a social phenomenon with many economic and cultural ideological dimensions. The concept of occupational health and safety, which is the subject of the article, is directly related to the economic dimension of globalization. The main reason for this situation is that economic globalization integrates developed and underdeveloped countries into international markets, creating an unequal and unbalanced relationship between them. Developing countries can use the raw material and labor resources of underdeveloped countries to their advantage with the help of the tools provided by economic globalization. A similar situation is observed relatively in the labor markets of developed countries. The momentum capitalism gained with neo-liberal policies after 1980 brought many transformations in labor markets and labor relations. In this process, the polarization, deregulation and liberalization tendencies caused by economic globalization in labor markets affect developed and underdeveloped countries in different degrees and ways. As presented in detail in the study, the effects of nose on OHS are very extensive and need to be addressed from many angles. On the one hand, occupational diseases, occupational accidents and deaths increase, on the other hand, psychological disorders and physiological problems increase due to non-standard working styles. Due to all these developments, the spread of various forms of inequality produced by the worsening working conditions with the globalization process and the worsening of the living conditions of the employees with the increasing job insecurity, the need for work on the current situation and future of occupational health and safety is increasing. In this context, the problems related to occupational health and safety that exist today in the process of economic globalization, which is a dimension of globalization, are discussed in detail. The effects of the economic globalization process on working life in general and occupational health and safety conditions in particular within the framework of developed and developing countries were evaluated. In the study, the reports of ILO, ETUI and European Agency for Occupational Health and Safety on approaches to occupational health and safety problems were evaluated. Methodically, in the light of the existing problems, a projection was tried to be made within the framework of the limitation of the study in the field of OHS by taking the reports as reference