• The employer ensures that basic training is given to its employees as soon as possible after the employee starts to work, including at least the following training topics.
  

• The employer ensures that the employee receives on-the-job training before actually starting to work. These trainings can be given by the employer or by knowledgeable and experienced employees assigned by the employer. On-the-job training should be of a nature that will ensure the protection of the employee against dangers and risks during the period until the realization of the basic training and should be given in practice. At least two hours of onboarding training is organized for each employee. The periods spent in these trainings are not counted as the basic training periods.

• Trainings on risks that may arise due to changes in workplace or job, change of work equipment, application of new technology are also given.
  

• Basic trainings are repeated at the following regular intervals, taking into account the changing and emerging risks:
  
• At least once a year in workplaces classified as very dangerous.
  
• At least once every two years in workplaces in the dangerous class.
  
• At least once every three years in workplaces classified as less hazardous.
  

• Before returning to work, an employee who has a work accident or an occupational disease is given additional training on the causes of the accident or occupational disease, ways of protection and safe working methods.
  

• Renewal training is given to those who have been away from work for more than six months for any reason, before re-employment.
  

• Employees who start to work in a new workplace after completing their basic education in a workplace without changing their job are trained in accordance with the risks and protection measures specific to the workplace they have just started, without repeating the entire training program in the training topics. The employer is responsible for checking the documents that the employee has completed basic training at the previous workplace. The basic trainings of these employees are valid during the regular intervals specified according to the hazard class of the workplace, from the date the employee completes the training. The employer also trains these employees in accordance with the on-the-job training.

• Necessary trainings are provided by taking into account the characteristics of groups requiring special policies, such as young employees who have completed the age of fifteen but not completed the age of eighteen, and those who are elderly, disabled, pregnant or breastfeeding.
  

• Support staff and employee representatives are also given training on the subjects they will be assigned to.
  

• The employer of the workplace where the applied training is received is responsible for the training and informing of the apprentices and interns.
  

• The basic trainings to be given to the employees, within the regular intervals determined during the continuation of the work;
  
• At least eight hours for less hazardous workplaces,
  
• At least twelve hours for dangerous workplaces,
  
• At least sixteen hours for very dangerous workplaces
  

       arranged for each employee.

• The activities carried out in the workplace are taken as basis in the distribution of the specified training periods according to the subjects included in the training subjects below.
  

• Although it is essential to evaluate the training periods as a whole, they can also be evaluated in different time periods, taking into account the shifts and similar work schedules in the workplace, provided that they are not less than one hour.
  

EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS

 REGULATION ON THE PROCEDURES AND PRINCIPLES OF EMPLOYEE'S OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY TRAINING