| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.90 |
| Liaison | Steve Mital |
| Submission Date | March 6, 2020 |
University of Oregon
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.88 / 2.00 |
Haily
Griffith Occupational Heath and Safety Manager Safety and Risk Services |
Does the institution have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)?:
Does the system use a nationally or internationally recognized standard or guideline?:
The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
The University of Oregon has a team of employees within Safety & Risk Services who oversee environmental and occupational health and safety programs. The Occupational Health & Safety Team has an annual strategic plan made up of 5 objectives.
5 Objectives of the Safety Plan
• Employee Participation & Involvement – Collaborative Safety Committees (Safety Advisory Committee [university wide committee], Food Service Safety Committee, Housing Safety Committee, STEP Team [Facilities Safety Committee] Laboratory Safety Committee)
• Hazard Awareness – training, audits, inspections
• Consultation & Outreach – Hazard Assessments, Job Safety Analysis,
• Safety System Development – development, training and audit of safety policy, programs and procedures
• Supervisor & Leadership Engagement – injury reporting and follow up, safety accountability, job planning for high risk tasks
Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
Full-time equivalent of employees:
Full-time equivalent of workers who are not employees, but whose work and/or workplace is controlled by the institution:
A brief description of the methodology used to track and calculate the number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health :
Recordable injuries and illnesses are recorded on a calendar year; Jan 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019. Recorded injuries/illnesses include any work-related event that required medical treatment beyond first aid, lost time, restricted time, or hearing loss of a Standard Threshold Shift.
Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
OSHA requires employers to track "annual average number of employees" along with "total hours worked by employees." Using these 2 numbers, our Total Incident Rate = 2.11
If the incident rate is calculated by multiplying 2000 hours x FTE, the hours worked is significantly less making the incident rate higher (2.33). Suggest that STARS ask for annual average number of employees and total hours worked by employees for a more accurate accounting of incident rate. All employers will have these numbers as they are required by OSHA annually.
OSHA requires employers to track "annual average number of employees" along with "total hours worked by employees." Using these 2 numbers, our Total Incident Rate = 2.11
If the incident rate is calculated by multiplying 2000 hours x FTE, the hours worked is significantly less making the incident rate higher (2.33). Suggest that STARS ask for annual average number of employees and total hours worked by employees for a more accurate accounting of incident rate. All employers will have these numbers as they are required by OSHA annually.
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