Safety engineering

Officials from the Labor Inspectorate conducted checks on 98 stores during the Black Friday sales last week and found breaches of regulations relating to overtime and health and safety issues in 23 cases, according to a statement issued by the Labor Ministry on Tuesday.

Authorities added that the plans for checks during the upcoming Christmas holidays are being drafted now.

Troubled Japanese car parts maker Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States and Japan. It faces lawsuits and tens of billions of dollars in costs over an airbag defect linked to at least 17 deaths globally.

Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp expressed condolences on June 27 to victims of its faulty air bags linked to at least 16 deaths and 180 injuries around the world, but stopped short of offering a full apology. 

Japan's crisis-hit car parts maker Takata filed for bankruptcy protection on June 26 and said its chief executive would quit after a deadly airbag crisis that triggered the auto industry's biggest ever safety recall.

At least 741 workers died in the first five months of 2017 in workplace accidents, with at least 146 worker deaths in May alone, according to a report recently released by a non-governmental organization dealing with worker health and safety issues.

Let’s be honest, most of us would prefer to not work a day or night job. We would probably like to lounge and relax without a care in the world and just enjoy the good things in life. But, that’s not how the world works, unfortunately, as those bills have to be paid somehow.

At least 415 workers have died in the first three months of 2016, according to a monthly report recently released by a non-governmental organization dealing with worker health and safety issues, with at least 157 worker deaths in March alone.

At least 1,138 workers have died in the first eight months of 2015, according to a monthly report recently released by a non-governmental organization dealing with worker health and safety issues, with at least 158 worker deaths in August alone.

At least 139 workers died as a result of workplace hazards in March 2015, with the total death toll exceeding 351 over the first three months of 2015, according to a report by the Turkey-based Workplace Health and Safety Assembly. 

Seven people are facing prison terms of up to 15 years on charges of reckless homicide in an accident which killed three workers during the construction of a viaduct for Istanbul's third bridge on April 5, 2014, according to the indictment.

The accident was "predictable and preventable, and happened as a result of imprudence and carelessness," according to an expert's report.