Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.18
Liaison Suzanne Wood
Submission Date April 3, 2020
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

UMass Chan Medical School
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.25 / 2.00 Suzanne Wood
Sustainability & Energy Manager
Facilities Managment
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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 89 171
Full-time equivalent of employees 4,779 4,024.90
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, 2017 Dec. 31, 2017
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2008 Dec. 31, 2008

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):
The baseline of 2008 was adopted because this is far back as available from HRD/WC.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
56.17

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.86

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:
UMass Medical School Environmental Health & Safety initiates include, but are not limited to: 1. Training (i.e. new hire, laboratory safety, fire safety, biological safety, radiation safety, roof access training) 2. Fit testing for N95, full face and 1/2 face respirators 3. Ergonomics program 4. Exposure monitoring

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Workplace injuries and FTE are for UMass Medical School only and do not include the affiliated hospital.

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