Southern Illinois University Carbondale
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

SIU Carbondale enthusiastically supports the purpose and intent of the Illinois Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Program. As a conscientious employer, SIU recognizes and accepts its moral and legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthy work environment. This includes investigating and addressing health and safety issues, monitoring potentially hazardous conditions and practices, providing adequate training and safety equipment as determined by applicable state and federal laws, and having information readily accessible covering any hazardous materials that are being used. The University strives to play a leadership role in the community in its environmental stewardship, health protection and safety standards and in its compliance with laws and regulations relating to the environment, health and safety. The achievement of these goals is an objective for units at all levels of the institution. Employees and student are expected to be supportive of these goals in their University activities. Good environmental health and safety practices are the responsibility of each faculty member, staff member, student and visitor on the SIU campus. Responsibilities of different campus members can be found on page 5 of the Employee Safety Resource Handbook

The reported full-time equivalent of employees doesn’t match the IC 3 data, which is intentional. In IC3, we used the fiscal year data. However, when reporting the number of recordable workplace injuries on campus, the Bureau of Labor Statistics require calendar year data report practices. So, that is why fiscal year data is not used for workplace injuries. Instead, the calendar year data has been used.