One of the leading companies striking the mind when it comes it occupational safety, Omega İş Güvenliği Danışmanlık Ltd. Şti provides their support to the requirement for the companies to have a first aid team in their facilities. Starting an first aid initiative for the sector with its subsidiary company Omega Akademi Mühendislik ve Danışmanlık, the Company provides professional service with its expert team in this segment.
Besides its first aid training, Omega Akademi offers service as a registration collection office of Istanbul European and Anatolian Side MYK Occupational Competence Certificate under the scope of business cooperation it has made with Kaynes Kariyer. In addition, the company, which provides sales of occupational materials and mobile health services, continues to work as a specialized supplier of occupational safety.
Özlem Kutbay, General Manager of Omega İş Güvenliği, shares information about the services they provide, noting that companies should act more consciously about the occupational health.
According to the provisions of Occupational Safety Law - First Aid Law and Regulation on Emergency Situations in Workplaces, it is compulsory for the businesses to have a first aid team in their buildings according to the risk ratio of the workplaces. "We conduct our business considering the fact that how important human health is", says Özlem Kutbay, as Omega Academy provides a substantial support to their customers according to her statement.
Kutbay explained the services they offered as Omega Academy with the following words: "At Omega Academy, we carry out aid training with a package presentation first. This package contains information about basic living support, bleeding, injury, fractures and dislocations including breathing control. First aid training; 'Protect' which prevents wrong intervention, 'Report and Rescue which requires 112' to search and 'Rescue'. Pursuant to the Law, it has become compulsory for every workplace to receive first aid training, ranging from the less dangerous classes to the more dangerous classes. It is required that 10 percent of the employees at the workplace be informed about first aid", say Özlem Kutbay.
First Aid Initiative From Omega Akademi
"We are launching an initiative not only to provide training but also to change the lasting misapplication and the current perspective," Kutbay continued. "The trainings are provided to seven people at the same time. For example, every fall from a high point should be considered as a brain trauma and the Protect-Report-Recover system should be applied accordingly. The goal of a permanent first aid is to maintain the vital functions of the victim with correct and early timing and and prevent worsening and enabling their recovery", suggest Mrs. Kutbay.
"As the textile sector generally takes place in a less dangerous class, except for a few sub-sectors, the sector is not given the necessary importance in terms of job security", says Mrs. Kutbay, evaluating the approach of the textile sector in on occupational safety. Hazard classes are determined by NACE codes. Zipper, metal accessories and embroidery production are classified in the dangerous class. Areas using fiber and rubber are also classified the dangerous class. In short, the textile industry does not entirely falls to the same class. Once the number of the personnel employed has exceeded 50, the Occupational Safety Board has to act", states Özlem Kutbay.
Özlem Kutbay adds some contract-manufacturing exporters have applied this procedure in accordance with the formalities, "Even if a needle sunk in the textile sector may be life-threatening. For this reason, first aid should be taken seriously", says Özlem Kutbay. Stating they provide on-site first aid training according the request of the companies as Omega Akademi, Kutbay suggest they also provide first aid supplies if requested.
