Occupational Health and Safety

The Department of Occupational Health and Safety aims to raise "Occupational Health and Safety Technicians" who have sufficient knowledge in the field of biology in order to ensure the safety of the working environment of the workplace, who can determine physical, chemical and psychological dangers and risks, have the required skills for reporting and tracking incidents and are well aware of legal regulations.

Occupational health and safety technicians are experts engaged for the creation of safe and healthy working environments for workers and employers. After the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 took effect, it became mandatory to procure Occupational Health and Safety services regardless of the number of employees and sector. Thus, it became compulsory for all sectors to recruit occupational safety experts.

Our students who graduate from the Occupational Health and Safety program become entitled to take the specialty examination offered by the Ministry of Labor, Social Services and Family, and earn the title of "occupational safety expert".

Graduates may also work at private/public companies and Joint Health and Safety Units authorized by the Ministry.

Graduates of the Occupational Health and Safety Program have the chance to transfer to 4 years' programs of Occupational Health and Safety, Emergency and Disaster Management, Business Administration, and Health Management and Social Services of various universities with the Vertical Transfer Examination (VTE).

The medium of instruction is Turkish.

The International Student Recruitment Office at Istanbul Bilgi University is always working on processing and evaluating students’ applications within a short time span.

Applications’ deadline is set to August-end regarding fall-semester applications. Future international students are required to submit their applications as soon as their official documents are ready.

The students who haven’t graduated from High-school and who want to send their application early and during their senior/last year of high school, can do so as follows:

• The evaluation will be done over the complete high school transcripts (3 or 4 years) and if accepted will be issued a ‘Conditional Acceptance Letter’.
• Once the student has graduated and obtained the high-school diploma with the corresponding official transcripts, the student should forward these last documents to the International Student Recruitment Office to issue the ‘Final Acceptance Letter’.