Sector-Specific Occupational Safety Risk Factors Evaluation in Livestock Farms

Goncu Serap, Yesil Muhammed Ikbal

Abstract: The risk factors control and protection methods for employee health is a very new subject for livestock enterprises. In the workplaces in the less dangerous class, if the number of employees is 50 or more it is obligatory to assign an occupational physician and occupational safety specialist, but less than 50. In this context, adaptation studies to the process gain importance in livestock enterprises. The main objective of current research to present some important issues to the benefit of users by evaluating the general situation in livestock enterprises in terms of occupational safety rules to be applied in workplaces.

Keywords: livestock, occupational safety, industry-specific risks, personal protective equipment