Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 76.93
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of Massachusetts Amherst
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.37 / 2.00 Nathanael Schildbach
Marketing Manager
University Relations
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Part 1. Health and safety management system

Does the institution have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)?:
Yes

Does the system use a nationally or internationally recognized standard or guideline?:
Yes

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems

If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
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Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
209

Full-time equivalent of employees:
12,393

If the institution wishes to report on other on-site workers, provide:

 

Full-time equivalent of workers who are not employees, but whose work and/or workplace is controlled by the institution:
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A brief description of the methodology used to track and calculate the number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health :
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides a workers’ compensation program for state employees that are injured in the course of their employment. The program is administrated by the Human Resources (HRD)- Workers Compensation (WC) Unit in accordance with Massachusetts General Law Chapter 152. The University enters notices on the HRD/WC eServices system. HRD/WC then classifies injuries as recordable, or not. Reportable date is captured on an OSHA form 300.
FTE number used is different than in PRE-5 because the number used is based off of the OSHA standard for calculating incident rate of injuries and illnesses (https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2016-08-23).

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
1.69

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
http://ehs.umass.edu

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Data provided by Assistant Director Campus Safety and Fire Prevention,
Environmental Health and Safety

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