Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 72.78
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date Feb. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Minnesota, Morris
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.93 / 2.00 Troy Goodnough
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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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?:
No

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
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A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:

At the University of Minnesota, University Health and Safety (UHS) is charged with providing leadership resources, and services to protect the environment, and to ensure the health and safety of the University's students, faculty, staff, patients, and visiting public. University Health and Safety supports a safe, healthy and sustainable University environment through its work. UHS has over 60 employees in six departments that work cooperatively with each other and clients to provide comprehensive safety services throughout the University system, including Biosafety and Occupational Health, Emergency Management, Radiation Safety, Environmental Compliance, Industrial Hygiene, Lab & Research Safety and Workplace Safety. UHS provides written programs to address health and safety regulations, regularly audit clients and provide required training to employees. Each system campus (Morris, Crookston, Duluth and Rochester) has at least one UHS employee working full-time supporting the campus. All incidents and injuries are recorded electronically to facilitate the maintenance of the OSHA 300 log, workers compensation program, claims management support, and incident investigation program.


Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
8

Full-time equivalent of employees:
364

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 :

All incidents are reported via an electronic first report of injury. These reports are reviewed by employees of University Health and Safety as meeting the definition of "OSHA recordable" and coded appropriately for inclusion in the OSHA 300 log. All reports receive a claim number and are supported by the University's claims management company, regardless of being recordable or not.


Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
2.20

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

2020 data.


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