Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.31
Liaison Amy McElhinney
Submission Date Sept. 29, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Mount Union
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.16 / 2.00 Laura Good
Assistant Director of Human Resources and Employee Benefits Manager
Human Resources
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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 8 13
Full-time equivalent of employees 437 381
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.02 0.03

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year June 30, 2017 June 30, 2014
Baseline Year July 1, 2016 June 30, 2013

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):
Health and safety of our faculty and staff has always been a priority to the institution. We are self-funded for workers compensation so we offer many worksite tools and programs to assist the faculty and staff in safely performing the functions of their jobs. In addition, we offer the healthy campus initiative to assist faculty and staff in their physical well-being.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
46.35

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.83

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:
Healthy Campus initiative Blood borne pathogen annual training Healthy lifting techniques MSDS sheets Safe handling of chemicals

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:
Data provided by Laura Good, Assistant Director of Human Resources and entered by Jamie Greiner.

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