Determination of Business Health and Safety Knowledge Levels of Forest Directorate Workers

Forests covering 27.2% of Turkey is an important area of employment. Forests are a workplace where workers from every area are involved, from very dangerous class to less dangerous class in terms of hazard classification. In this study, it was aimed to determine occupational health and safety knowledge levels of the personnel working in the Forestry Regional Directorate. According to the results, the ratio of General Occupational Health (OHS) and Safety Education is 96.6%.The ratio of the special OHS education is 73.1%.However, the percentage of those using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was significantly lower (53.4%).These results have been made to cover all employees without employee classification