İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi Journal of Business Research-Turk 10/3 (2018) 767-787 The Effect of Practices in Occupational - Employee Health and Safety on Employees’ Organizational Trust: A Case on Five Star Hotels Elbeyi PELİT Afyon Kocatepe University Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye orcid.org/0000-0002-6418-801X elbeyipelit@aku.edu.tr Merve GÜLEN Afyon Kocatepe University Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye orcid.org/0000-0002-9270-4755 merve_bolu_@hotmail.com Extensive Summary Introduction The laws and regulations regarding the prevention of negative factors of health and safety issues are deterrent. At the same time they are important for the employer in terms of the protection of the work environment and hygiene conditions in production; for the employee they are important in terms of protection of mental and physical health, security in the organization, providing financial and moral support to the family and the continuation of social rights within the retirement period (Akar Şahingöz ve Şık, 2015, p.14). In the tourism sector, seasonal high workload, especially during the holidays and summer months, makes it easier to employ uninsured and unsecured employees at the weekend or at night when many of the workforce do not work, and this led to the workforce who are not well educated, could not protect themselves from occupational accidents and diseases, fear from losing their jobs and worry about social security. The increase in tourism organizations also supports the increase in employment and competition, and it causes the employees to face various risk factors in this sector. These reasons make the tourism sector more prominent in terms of occupational accidents and diseases (Kavurmacı and Demirdelen, 2015). On the other hand, long working hours, complexity of working time, inadequate rest in tourism industry negatively affect physical endurance, resilience, power and attention and causes accidents in organizations (Boz, 2006). In this study, occupational-employee health and safety and organizational trust topics were investigated. Improvement of irregular working conditions, regular training about occupational health and safety practices and adaptation of auditing conditions in organizations increase the employees' commitment to the organization. Studies on occupational health and safety were mainly focused on agriculture (Sakartepe, 2016; Şık, 2017; Aktuna, 2017), mining (Toygar, 2017), industry (Açıkalın,