Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.35
Liaison Laurie Husted
Submission Date June 9, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Bard College
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.52 / 2.00 Deanna Cochran
Special Projects Manager
VP for Administration
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Part 1 

Please enter data in the table below:
Performance Year Baseline Year
Number of recordable workplace injuries and occupational disease cases 21 14
Full-time equivalent of employees 725 660
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.03 0.02

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2016 Dec. 31, 2016
Baseline Year Jan. 31, 2011 Dec. 31, 2011

A brief description of when and why the workplace health and safety baseline was adopted (e.g. in sustainability plans and policies or in the context of other reporting obligations):
most recent data available

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
0

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
2.90

Optional Fields 

A brief description of the institution’s workplace health and safety initiatives, including how workers are engaged in monitoring and advising on health and safety programs:
Safety Committee that meets every other month. Their mission: "Promote a healthy and safe, living, learning and working environment for the college community with the intention of minimizing accidents and damages to persons and property." Examples of initiatives: communicating across departments to reenforce safety issues; promote lectures related to upcoming H&S issues, changing protocols (e.g. made transportation updates to increase safety - reflective tape, shuttle stop changes, recommendations for upgrades to lighting, stairwells, cross walks, etc.)

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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