The Effects of Technological Investments on Health and Safety Culture in Turkish Small and Medium Sized Entrepreneurs

Dilsad Akal

PhD, Auditor, Vice President at Guidance and Councelling Board at Ministry of Industry and Technology, Ankara/Turkey

Dr. Dilsad Akal, PhD, Auditor, Vice President at Guidance and Councelling Board at Ministry of Industry and Technology, Ankara/Turkey.

Keywords: Technological Investments; Health and Safety Culture; Organized Industrial Zone

Abstract

Technological investments are one of the most important driving factors, allow firms stay in market and satisfy the client expectations. Since technology develops rapidly, it is an obligatory for a firm to support the process techniques with these advancements. In addition to following technological trends, health and safety culture is crucial for a firm in order to prevent work accidents and occupational diseases and staying in market. For this reason, utilizing technological advancements in order to improve health and safety conditions at a firm is important too. Researches conclude that the firms, which adapt/adopt technological investments on their own, may have more chance to compete in the market. This study analysed the impacts of technological investments while improving the health and safety culture of the firm. It was carried in November/December 2018 with 30 participants in two organized industrial zones in Ankara, Turkey. A questionnairrie and an interview was applied at the same time and the collected data was analysed by using statistical pocket program. By the results, we found that technological investments enhancing health and safety conditions of the firms and this enables the sustainabilty of them in the marketpalce. The results of this study is compatible the results found in similiar studies in literature. At the end of the study, a frame was drawn about the current condition. This study is unique that it investigated the technological investments effects on firms’ conditions, especially in terms of health and safety in a broader sense.

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