Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.21
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date June 9, 2023

STARS v2.2

Boston University
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.99 / 2.00 Stephen Ellis
Director, Data Analytics
BU Sustainability
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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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A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
These Standards do not fit within the University's needs. EHS conducts Monthly Safety trainings for a variety of groups on campus with our online BioRAFT System.

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.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
131

Full-time equivalent of employees:
9,581

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 BioRAFT to track all of our inspections.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
1.37

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 FY2021 BU Metrics.

The data included here are from BU's recent OSHA Form 300A submission for 2022.

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