Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.89
Liaison Allie Schwartz
Submission Date Aug. 29, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Columbia University
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.33 / 2.00 Lauren Ragone
Assistant Director, Leave Administration
CU Human Resources
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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 474 253
Full-time equivalent of employees 11,756 18,379
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.04 0.01

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. 1, 2013 Dec. 31, 2013

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):
This was the year in which we can report data.

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:
4.03

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:
The University has an Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) office whose main responsibility is ensuring safety in the workplace. EHS offers trainings, both mandatory and optional, to assist with employee safety in the workplace.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://ehs.columbia.edu/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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