Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.85
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date Oct. 7, 2021

STARS v2.2

Boston University
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.70 / 2.00 Stephen Ellis
Director, Data Analytics
BU Sustainability
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Part 1. Health and safety management system

Does the institution have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)?:
No

Does the system use a nationally or internationally recognized standard or guideline?:
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The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
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If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
These standards does not fit within the university's needs,
we do monthly trainings,
-We use Bio-raft to track all of our inspections

The Campus & Clinical Safety program provides services to all BU and BMC personnel and property in order to promote safety and maintain compliance with safety regulations. Campus & Clinical Safety works closely with other departments to address all broad-based safety concerns throughout BU and BMC. Campus & Clinical Safety is a division of Environmental Health & Safety.

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
200

Full-time equivalent of employees:
9,428

If the institution wishes to report on other on-site workers, provide:

 

Full-time equivalent of workers who are not employees, but whose work and/or workplace is controlled by the institution:
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A brief description of the methodology used to track and calculate the number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health :
Online accident reporting system, which goes into our worker's comp system. in addition, we use Bio-raft to track all of our inspections.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
2.12

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This represents FY2019 BU Metrics.

The data included here is from BU's recent OSHA Form 300A submission for 2019.

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