Overall Rating Platinum
Overall Score 86.35
Liaison Lisa Kilgore
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Cornell University
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.35 / 2.00 Timothy Fitzpatrick
Director, Occupational, Health, Safety & Injury Prevention
Environmental Health and Safety
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Part 1. Health and safety management system

Does the institution have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)?:
Yes

Does the system use a nationally or internationally recognized standard or guideline?:
Yes

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
ISO 45001

If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
The university policy for Environment, Health and Safety can be found here:

https://policy.cornell.edu/policy-library/environment-health-and-safety

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
186

Full-time equivalent of employees:
10,750.50

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 :
Incident reporting is done online through Cority an EHS software subscription. Our incident reporting system enable us to report, investigate, and trend the following incident types: Injury Illness and Exposure Incidents, Environmental Incidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, and Injury-Free Incidents. Our employees are trained to report incidents to their supervisor immediately and to Cornell’s Cority incident reporting portal within 24 hours of any incident. Then supervisors and EHS professionals are required to investigate and update the incident report with their incident specifics, findings, and changes in treatment. The system enables investigators to develop and assign findings and actions. All reported injury illness and exposure incident cases are closed by EHS staff after a follow up has been completed with the injured person.
To trend incident data Cority has a robust business intelligence tool for developing reports and dashboards for all campus members to view.
https://ehs.cornell.edu/incident-reporting

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
1.73

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
http://ehs.cornell.edu

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Please note: a multitude of topic specific health and safety procedures can be found on the EHS website as is listed above as well. http://ehs.cornell.edu

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