KICK OFF MEETING (19-20 December 2011, Ankara)
The kick-off meeting of HESAPRO Project was held on 19th December 2011 at the meeting hall of Directorate General for Productivity, Ankara. The field visits were also implemented on 20th December 2011 to ISGUM (Occupational Health and Safety Centre) and TERMIKEL A.S. (Producer of electrical home appliances).
After the opening speech of General Director of DGP Anil YILMAZ, productivity Expert from DGP Ilknur FROLET made a presentation about HESAPRO Project; giving information on the partners, aims and strategies of the project; also the studies continuing about health and safety issues in Turkey. In addition she talked about the structure, functions and goals of Directorate General for Productivity.
Subsequently, the representatives of the project partners listed below made presentations about their organizations and their studies on health and safety issues:
- Dr. Benhur SATIR / Çankaya University
- Julien PELLETIER / ANACT
- Veronique De BROECK / PREVENT
- Veli Matti TUURE / TTS
- Aila Peippo PASURI / TTS
- Ľuboslav DULINA / SLCP
- Zuzana SÁGOVÁ / SLCP
Apart from the project team members from Cankaya University, the Rector Prof. Dr. Ziya Burhanettin GUVENÇ also attended to the meeting and made a brief speech at the kick of meeting in the morning session.
About fifty productivity experts and directors of DGP also attended to the kick off meeting in the first session held in the morning and they had a chance to learn both about the project and also about the functions and services of the partner institutions, as the first session of the meeting was comprised of presentations on the strategies, aims and outputs of the project and the partner institutions.
In the second session of the meeting, project partners had shared opinions and views on the planned project outputs and shared the workload.
On 20th December 2011 the field visits were made by the project team to;
- ISGUM (Center for Occupational Safety and Health) and
- TERMIKEL A.S. (producer of electrical home appliances)
At ISGUM, after the introductory presentations, the health and safety loboratories were visited by participants and they were informed about the establishment of ISGUM and its functions. Following ISGUM visit, TERMIKEL A.S., producer of ovens, chimney hoods and aspirators located in Sincan Organized Industrial Zone was also visited and the project team was informed about health and safety implementations in the company. Moreover, they had a chance to observe the production units and processes.