Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.05
Liaison Jack Byrne
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Middlebury College
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.00 / 2.00 Jack Byrne
Director of Sustainability Integration
Environmental Affair
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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?:
No

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
VOSHA (Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration)

If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
Middlebury manages our program in compliance with all Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration (VOSHA) standards. Vermont has a State Plan administered by VOSHA, which is a federal OSHA-approved workplace safety and health program.

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
51

Full-time equivalent of employees:
1,168

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 :
This data is tracked by our Disability and Leave Specialist in HR and reported via OSHA Form 300A.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
4.37

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:
The employee count numbers are straight from our annual OSHA filings which ask for the “average annual number of employees” which includes more than our regular full-time and part-time employees that make up the FTE numbers including work study students who constitute a significant number over and above our FTE counts

Middlebury also employs some employees who work seasonally or temporarily for dining services, retail operations, facilities services, Rikert Nordic Ski Center, and the Snowbowl Ski Area who also do not show up in the FTE counts.

Most of the injuries reported occur in facilities and dining. We are working on hazard prevention training and techniques with these groups to focus on injury prevention.

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