Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.22
Liaison Mary Ellen Mallia
Submission Date Dec. 21, 2018
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STARS v2.1

University at Albany
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.13 / 2.00 Mary Ellen Mallia
Director of Environmental Sustainability
Finance and Business
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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 41 80
Full-time equivalent of employees 3,203 4,075
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.01 0.02

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, 2014 Dec. 31, 2014

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):
Since this is a new piece of data we are tracking, we are most comfortable using our initial entry as our baseline year going forward.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
34.80

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.28

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 University at Albany Office of Environmental Health and Safety is dedicated to providing the expertise, advice, guidelines and current standards of professional practice, to ensure the safety and well being of our students, faculty, staff and visitors. The goal is to prevent injury, illness, and environmental damage through the recognition, evaluation, and control of potential hazards arising from University activities, and to comply with federal, state and local safety and environmental regulations. The main initiatives of the office include: overseeing and providing training on research and lab safety (which this year included a green chemistry training), managing the universal waste (batteries, lights, etc) and hazardous waste (over 23.7 tons for 2017) programs for the University, providing occupational safety training and equipment to University employees, coordinating employee physicals and audiograms, administering a radiation safety program and a biosafety program, coordinating the University’s Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) program and providing ergonomic evaluations of computer workstations.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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