İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Lisans Diploması

• Have theoretical and practical knowledge in all areas concerning occupational health and safety.
• Gains the ability to understand and apply the practices practiced in the field of Occupational Health and Safety professionally.
• Have knowledge in basic disciplines such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, and in sub-major branches such as medical biology, medical biochemistry and biostatistics.
• Have sufficient knowledge about occupational health and safety, first aid, search and rescue, social security, fire protection, risk analysis, reporting, occupational hygiene, environmental protection information, occupational diseases, emergency, and disaster management.
• Gains the ability to OHS in Maintenance and repair, explosive atmospheres and its hazards, have adequate equipment related to all risk factors in the working environment.
• Gains the ability to have current legal regulations in the field and have knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and legislation in previous years.
• Gains the ability to interpret and evaluate data, to identify and analyze problems, and to develop evidence-based solutions using the basic knowledge and skills gained in the field. Gains the ability to put the lessons seen in its field into practice in professional life.
• Gains the ability to can apply its knowledge and skills in the field of security, protection, and management.
• Gains the ability to knowing the necessity of lifelong learning, legislation, professional language knowledge, scientific and technological developments and self-improvement.
• Have the knowledge of the professional language that can follow effective communication skills and innovations in his field using the oral and written expressions of the Turkish. Applicable the knowledge and experience gained in the field at every stage of life, and have the responsibility for OHS issues with the awareness of safety culture.
• Gains sufficient self-confidence in activity, responsibility, and leadership skills within the study group, individually.
• Have the conscious of social and professional ethics, respectful to cultural values. Have the students graduated in fields the potential to be employed in public institutions or in private businesses.

• Each student must register at beginning of the semester and must attend at least 70% of the courses and at least 80% of the practices in order to be able to take the final exam.
• Students are required to take at least one midterm and a final exam for each course.
• The achievement grade is 40% for the midterm exam and 60% for the final exam.
• All exams are evaluated over 100 points. Students who take one of the letter grades (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB), (CC) are deemed to have completed the course. (DC) and (DD) letter grades are conditionally successful grades.
• The student who takes the letter grades DC and DD must be achieved a grade point average of at least 2.00.

The right to admit and register in the Occupational Health and Safety department is earned with the YKS (Higher Education Institutions Examination) exams made by OSYM. Access to undergraduate programs is only based on the scores from these exams. The students send their preference forms to the Student Selection and Placement Center (OSYM) via the system by sorting their preferences according to the scores they get in the exam result. OSYM is an institution affiliated to YOK. OSYM takes all applications, groups applicants according to points, places scores from highest to lowest, lists all existing programs according to preferred score, and places students in one of their preferred programs. Documents required for registration; 1- High school and equivalent school diploma, 2- Placement result certificate made by OSYM. In addition, students who meet the requirements of the Horizontal and Vertical Transition Regulations gain the right to admission and register.

Students who will graduate from this program will be able to be employed as "Occupational Health and Safety Professional" in all institutions and organizations in public and private sectors. In addition, according to current legislation, Occupational Health and Safety professionals can obtain "Class C Occupational Safety Specialist" certification if they are successful in OHS exams made by OSYM. In order to obtain this certificate, it is sufficient to enter directly to the OSYM exam without joining any training program. In addition, according to the current legislation, if the graduates of Occupational Health and Safety program have a Master's Degree in their field, it is possible to obtain a "Class B Occupational Safety Specialist" certificate if they is successful in the OSYM’s relevant examination without participating in any training program. If these certificates are operated in the public and private sector without any contradiction to the relevant legislation, the certification level can be increased if the necessary criteria are provide. Raising the number of certifications is also important because of will expand the working fields of young graduates. Bachelor's graduates who have successfully completed 4 years of study in the field of OHS will be able to work in the expert status in the public. In the private sector and in the public sector, the OHS Expert requirement is met by the persons who have already received the Certificate of Specialization as a result of the OHS exams made by OSYM after the certification training given by the Special Education Institutions. It is thought that certification programs may be removed or restrained in the future if the necessary employment can be met due to the widespread of Occupational Health and Safety Departments in private and state universities. In such a case, front of the Occupational Health and Safety graduates will be further opened. The public institutions that department graduates can employ: Ministries, Atomic Energy Institution, State Personnel Presidency, Turkey Statistical Institute, the General Directorate of State Archives, Ministry of Justice, Judicial Register and Statistics, National Library, Prime Ministry Customization Administration, Competition Authority, State Theaters, Undersecretariat of Treasury, Court of Accounts, Council of State, Supreme Court, Constitutional Court, Presidency, Higher Education Council, Central Bank, Capital Markets Board, Radio and Television Supreme Council, Presidency of Religious Affairs, Social Security Institution, Banking Regulation and Supervision Board, TRT, Turkish Electricity Administration, Turksat, Aselsan, TAI, HAVELSAN, Airports, SPO, Municipalities, Provincial Bank, Special Administrations, etc. The private institutions that department graduates can employ: After graduation, a wide field of study in all fields of the private sector expects the department studentsBecause of are obliged of OHS Professional employment according to their hazard levels and the employees' number of workplaces, we can give examples of employment in all fields based on production, management and marketing that operate in the private sector. According to the statistics, about 12,000 Occupational Health and Safety graduates must be trained for our country. Students graduated from undergraduate program of the Occupational Health and Safety Department; will take an active role in the field of Occupational Health and Safety, and will take part in making the employee healthy and safe.

The document is valid continuously.