• Profile
  • TSKB in Brief
  • TSKB's Subsidiaries
  • Products and Services Of TSKB
• Performance
  • Value Creation
  • Awards & Recognitions
  • CEO's Assessment
• Approach
  • TSKB's Sustainable Banking Strategy
  • TSKB's Sustainability Priorities
• Dialogue
  • TSKB and Stakeholder Engagement
  • TSKB's Stakeholders
  • 2010 Stakeholder Dialogue Highlights
• Sustainability and Environmental Issues
  • Sustainable Banking at TSKB
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Economic Dimension
  • The Renewable Energy Sector and TSKB
  • TSKB Energy Index
  • TSKB, Climate Change, and the Environment
  • TSKB's Efforts on Behalf of Sustainability and the Environment
  • Who Wouldn't Want to Be Sustainable?
  • ISO 14001 Certification
  • The Structure of the TSKB Environmental Management Team
  • TSKB's Environment Policy
  • TSKB's Environmental Impact
  • Sustainable Banking Performance: the Environmental Dimension
  • Developments in External Environmental Impact
• Corporate Governance
  • Absolute Compliance With Laws and Regulations
  • TSKB's Corporate Governance Structure
  • Compliance With Corporate Governance Principles
  • Risk Management at TSKB
  • Prevention of Money-Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism
  • Relations with Suppliers
• People
  • Human Resources and the Workplace at TSKB
  • The TSKB Performance Management System
  • TSKB Compensation and Reward System
  • TSKB Human Resources Structure
  • Human Rights and Employee Rights at TSKB
  • Competency Development and Training
  • Health and Safety at TSKB
  • Commuting By Sea
  • Internal Communication at TSKB
• The Community
  • Social Responsibility at TSKB
  • "Environment: Our Priority": Past and present
  • The NGOs that TSKB Collaborates with
• Summarized TSKB Goals and Performance
• Appendices
  • About This Report
  • Statement GRI Application Level Check
  • Global Reporting Initiative Cross Index
  • Online Sustainability
  • Imprint
  • Communication and Service Channels

HEALTH AND SAFETY AT TSKB

TSKB is a corporate citizen who recognizes the importance of health and safety in its employees’ lives and who has made such issues an integral part of its human resources policies and practices.

TSKB is mindful of remaining in full compliance with laws and regulations applicable in Turkey to workplace and worker health and safety at all of its headquarters and branch premises. The Bank also abides by a policy that takes current worldwide practices pertaining to such matters into account as well.

The TSKB Human Resources Unit is responsible for health and safety matters at the Bank’s workplaces. This unit takes a direct interest in TSKB employees’ health and safety issues and ensures that all necessary measures and precautions are taken.

Under the heading of workplace safety, the physical conditions and technical infrastructure of the Bank’s premises are all checked at regular intervals. The Bank has developed information and warning systems to deal with a variety of emergencies. Locations where problems may occur are identified and measures are taken as need be.

Workplace “Zero-Accident” record
A TSKB corporate goal is to maintain a “Zero-Accident” record at its workplaces. The Bank collaborates with individuals and organizations who are specialized in workplace health and safety in order to achieve this goal.

Emergency drills at TSKB
TSKB conducts drills in order to test the effectiveness of its emergency plans. Two such drills took place during the reporting period: one on 13 November 2009 and one on 26 October 2010. Drills are planned and carried out in order to develop human resources’ abilities to react and respond to emergency situations.

Fire drills are conducted at headquarters premises every year. All TSKB personnel take part in these drills.

One objective of drills is to fully evacuate premises within designated periods of time. Another is to develop reaction and response skills in light of different scenarios. Drills also provide important opportunities to train and test TSKB’s first aid and fire fighting teams.

TSKB’s emergency action plans are regularly reviewed and updated in light of the feedback and results that are obtained through drills.