Occupational Health & Safety

Placing human life above everything else, Tekfen Holding regards ensuring the health and safety of its own employees, the employees of its contractors and subcontractors, and visitors at workplaces under the company’s control as being a fundamental principle.

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is one of the top priorities for Tekfen Holding, which operates companies in high-risk industries such as construction and chemicals. The Group aims for ‘zero accidents’ across all industries and strives to transform the OHS concept into a living culture. Daily site controls, weekly site controls, internal audits and third-party audits are carried out to check the compliance of the works with the management systems, regulations, and procedures.

Tekfen sets out its Occupational Health and Safety management principles and commitments to its employees and third parties through its HSE Policies.

Group Companies take the OHSAS 18001 / ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System as a guide in order to reach the determined targets. The ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System is implemented at Tekfen Contraction’s Head Office and all projects and workplaces, Tekfen Manufacturing's Head Office and Derince Plant, and Toros Agri's Head Office and Mersin, Samsun, and Ceyhan Production Facilities.

OHS Training

The importance and priority that Tekfen Group companies give to OHS training are informed by the need to raise the level of employees’ OHS awareness and competencies in order to achieve OHS objectives and goals. All Tekfen personnel employed at worksites that are under Tekfen Holding’s control are measured in the same way and they are subject to the same OHS rules without exception. Every Tekfen employee’s OHS performance indicators are monitored together and subcontractor personnel receive the same OHS training that all Tekfen personnel do. There are regular training programs for employees in all Group companies, and intensive training programs are implemented above the legal requirements, especially in business lines where the risk ratio is higher, such as construction and chemistry.

Guidance Books

Tekfen Group Companies prepare and distribute guidebooks for their employees, including relevant stakeholders, in the sectors in which they do business and in areas they identify as lacking.

Tekfen Group Companies have contributed to guidebooks in the field of OHS by preparing guidebooks on Safe Load Lifting, Safe Load Equipment, Scaffolding Safety, and Off-the-Job Safety.

Process Safety

Another crucially important issue in the conduct of industrial operations is the matter of process safety. In 2019, a “Tekfen Process Safety Model” was formulated and a “Process Safety Regulation” describing that model was published. Regular audits for process safety are carried out in all high-risk facilities in this direction.