| Yazarlar (3) |
Muvaffak Osman Engür
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Prof. Dr. Korhan ENEZ
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
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Hafiz Hulusi Acar
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
| Özet |
| Nearly 7.4 million people! ive in about 20,000 forest villages in Turkey. Event though forest resources and people living in those villages provide important economic and socioeconomic benefits to the country, this is the community which represents the most disadvantageous part of the society in terms of benefits from the gross national product and education and health services nationwide. In the country, forest harvesting has been performed by the Agricultural Development Cooperatives formed by the forest villagers with the provisions of the Turkish Forestry legislation since the early 1970s. With a given priority to loca! forest villagers for felling, delimbing, cross-cutting, skidding and transporting, the forest-village cooperatives accomplished nearly 70% of total round wood production from the forests in 2006. It is the fact that a big majority of the workers is lack of proper education and training for forestry operations. Since the operators for chain saws are generally taught by either their colleagues or relatives, they are aware of basic and advanced harvesting techniques. As a result of the fact that they are not trained for health and safety issues in forestry, the usage rate of safety helmet, ear muffs, safety trousers, and safety boots is stili 1% throughout the country. Felling aids for forestry are not well known. Due to these reasons, safety and personal protective equipment (PPE) for forestry operations is not well known and deadly and costly accidents become inevitable. üne of the main reasons for low awareness of safety and health issues in forestry harvest operations in Turkey has been lack of periodical and proper training programs for forestry … |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Bildiri Türü | Tebliğ/Bildiri |
| Bildiri Alt Türü | Tam Metin Olarak Yayınlanan Tebliğ (Uluslararası Kongre/Sempozyum) |
| Bildiri Niteliği | Alanında Hakemli Uluslararası Kongre/Sempozyum |
| Bildiri Dili | İngilizce |
| Kongre Adı | International Conference on Safety and Health in Forestry |
| Kongre Tarihi | 23-05-2007 / 25-05-2007 |
| Basıldığı Ülke | |
| Basıldığı Şehir |
