Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.54
Liaison Mike Versteege
Submission Date June 30, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Alberta
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 2.00 Robert Munro
Director, Environment, Health & Safety
Risk Management Services
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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 98 116
Full-time equivalent of employees 11,612 11,832
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.01 0.01

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2016 Dec. 31, 2016
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2013 Dec. 31, 2016

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 university chose to provide the average from the three years previous to the performance year.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
13.92

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
0.84

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 Environment, Health and Safety unit completes a variety of initiatives every year. Current high priority initiatives are to develop and implement safety training for supervisors, enhance to the incident reporting system, implement an integrated database and develop a safety committee structure across the university. Employee engagement is conducted through health and safety committees.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://www.ualberta.ca/environment-health-safety

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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