Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.42
Liaison Dayna Cook
Submission Date March 3, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Northern Arizona University
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.31 / 2.00 Ellen Vaughan
Manager
Office of Sustainability
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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 55 128
Full-time equivalent of employees 3,185 2,995
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.02 0.04

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2015 Dec. 31, 2016
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2012 Dec. 31, 2012

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):
We chose 2012 as the baseline because that was the first year we did an internal audit of our injury log populated by our reporting software. We did the same internal audit in 2016.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
59.59

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.73

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 Environmental Health and Safety Department oversees the following programs: asbestos, lead, and PCBs biological safety chemical hygiene and safety confined space safety environmental compliance ergonomics field safety general safety hazard communication hazardous waste management hearing conservation import and export industrial hygiene laser safety loss prevention topics occupational health online loss prevention training minors in laboratories mold radiation respiratory protection Dozens of other initiatives can be found at the link below.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://nau.edu/Research/Compliance/Environmental-Health-and-Safety/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Injury numbers provided by: Sarah Elizabeth Ells, Health/Safety Officer, Regulatory Compliance FTE: http://nau.edu/PAIR/Quick-Facts/

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