Workplace Health and Safety Unit

Workplace Health and Safety Unit Activities

The Hasan Kalyoncu University Security Unit is structured and operates in accordance with the provisions of the Law No. 5188 on Private Security Services. The duties of the Security Unit are as follows:

• To ensure the general safety of our students, staff and the campus,
• To take measures to prevent disruption of campus life,
• To contribute to the uninterrupted and safe continuation of teaching and learning activities,
• To control entries to and exits from the campus, and to maintain traffic and parking order on campus,
• To prevent incidents such as theft, sabotage and vandalism,
• To ensure that lost property is returned to its owners as soon as possible,

General Campus Rules of Hasan Kalyoncu University:

• All students are required to use their own student ID cards in person at campus entrances. Allowing someone else to use an ID card, or causing another person to enter the campus without authorisation, constitutes identity forgery and a security breach. In such cases, administrative and, if necessary, criminal proceedings are initiated against both the student and the person concerned.
  • Guests accompanying our students (immediate family members – mother, father, siblings, spouse) must present a valid identity document to the security staff and obtain a “Visitor Card”.
  • University Security Staff work under the Law No. 5188 on Private Security Services and are authorised to ask for identification and obtain information in line with security measures. All students and staff are required to assist security officers during these checks.
• In order to ensure the safety and peace of our academic and administrative staff and students, except in emergencies, guests other than immediate family members of our students are not admitted to the campus.
• Without the approval of the relevant university units, it is prohibited to promote educational sets, accept course applications, distribute brochures, advertise, carry out individual promotion or engage in any similar activity on campus. Announcements, posters, brochures and similar notices for all events to be held inside or outside the university must be handed to campus security and submitted for the approval of the “General Secretariat”. No notice that has not been approved by the General Secretariat may be posted on campus, and when such unauthorised attempts are detected, the necessary action is initiated against the person or persons concerned.
  • Our campus is a smoke-free zone. Out of respect for non-smokers and in consideration of the environment, using cigarettes, other tobacco products and electronic cigarettes on campus outside the designated areas is prohibited.
• As a higher education institution, the Hasan Kalyoncu University campus is first and foremost a living space dedicated to teaching and learning. For this reason, our students, staff and visitors are expected to behave with care and respect within the community.
  • When spending time with friends in communal areas, care should be taken to ensure that the level of entertainment and your volume do not disturb those around you.
  • Any behaviour on campus that could disturb the peace or damage the quality of the learning environment is not tolerated. In this context, playing cards, okey, backgammon, dominoes and similar card games or games of chance, whether in open or enclosed areas, is strictly prohibited.
  • Bringing any domestic or wild animal onto the campus from outside is not permitted. For reasons of both hygiene and safety, if this rule is violated, the security unit takes the necessary action.
  • Any behaviour that threatens the safety of individuals must be prevented within the university environment. In this context, students, staff and visitors are strictly prohibited from entering the campus with cutting or piercing tools, firearms, or any items that could be carried for the purpose of attack or defence.
  • It is every student’s responsibility to respect the private lives and personal privacy rights of members of the university. Making audio or video recordings on campus without permission, and sharing or storing them, is strictly prohibited. Such acts give rise to disciplinary proceedings and may also constitute an offence under the provisions on the privacy of private life of the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237.

🔔 Important: Such activities may be subject to a disciplinary investigation, and penalties may be applied under the YÖK Disciplinary Regulation.

Vehicle Use and Traffic Rules on Campus:

• The vehicle entry label issued by security staff must be affixed in a visible area of the vehicle. Vehicles without a vehicle entry card will not be allowed to enter the campus. Administrative action will be initiated against drivers found to have entered the campus by unauthorised routes.
• If any person has got into your vehicle by hitchhiking before you enter the campus, this must be reported immediately to campus security staff.
• The maximum speed limit on campus is 30 km/h. Exceeding this limit is prohibited.
• Driving under the influence of alcohol on campus, or attempting to enter the campus by vehicle while under the influence, is strictly prohibited.
• Driving in a way that harms the environment or individuals is prohibited. If such behaviour is detected, a report will be drawn up against the vehicle’s licence plate, and the driver’s details and the report will be forwarded to the Provincial Police Directorate Traffic Branch Unit.
• Car parks are classified as academic-administrative staff car park, student and visitor car park and car park for people with disabilities; only people with disabilities may use the disabled parking spaces, and only vehicles carrying the appropriate vehicle entry card may enter and park in the academic-administrative staff car park.
• Motorcycles must park in the area reserved for them. (On the left at the main gate entrance)
  • The vehicle entry cards of drivers who disregard the warnings of security staff, argue with them, insult academic/administrative staff or students who warn them, or verbally or physically harass people with their vehicles will be cancelled.
  • The necessary administrative action will be taken against anyone who commits forgery relating to a vehicle entry card or allows someone else to use their own vehicle entry card.
  • Sounding the horn unnecessarily on campus, playing loud music in a vehicle in a way that disturbs others, and throwing litter from inside a vehicle are prohibited.
  • Vehicles with a faulty exhaust system, vehicles that emit excessive smoke and noise, and vehicles modified in a way that disturbs the surroundings will not be admitted to the campus.
  • Performing stunts or shows with vehicles (for example: convoys, drifting, etc.) is strictly prohibited.
  • Parking is permitted only in authorised car park areas on campus. The tyres of vehicles parked at building entrances, turning points and areas that obstruct traffic will be clamped by security staff.
  • If the traffic rules set out above are not complied with, the Penalty Point System will be applied by the Hasan Kalyoncu University Traffic Board.

The total PENALTY POINT limit that drivers may accumulate on campus is 40 credits. Once the credits are exhausted, the driver’s vehicle entry card is withdrawn for 1 (one) year.