Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.60
Liaison Mary Lucus
Submission Date Feb. 26, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Belmont University
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.04 / 2.00 Mary Lucus
Director, IR
Provost
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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 32 56
Full-time equivalent of employees 1,085 894
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.03 0.06

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Sept. 1, 2017 Aug. 31, 2018
Baseline Year Dec. 31, 2011 Dec. 31, 2014

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):
As part of Belmont's ongoing commitment to improving workplace health and safety, we have developed specific programs in the office of Risk Management and Compliance focusing on accident investigations, threat assessment, risk management, and campus safety. Working with the Associate Provost and Dean of Students, the University has comprehensive evacuation plans, regular environment testing specifically within the dormitories and food services, and the University has purchased an alert communications system that sends email notifications and text messages and voice messages to registered user's phone numbers.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
52.92

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
2.95

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:
Improving campus communications around risk assessment; hiring and training campus safety officers in threat assessment; regular environmental testing of air quality, etc.; and creation of an Office of Risk Management with appropriate staffing. The Office of Risk Management has hired a Safety and Loss Prevention Coordinator to further assess workplace health and safety.

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