Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.51
Liaison Aurora Sharrard
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Pittsburgh
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.75 / 2.00 Keith Duval
Health and Safety
Environmental Health & Safety
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

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?:
No

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
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If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
The University of Pittsburgh annually completes the “HandS report” for Self-insurers of Pennsylvania. The HandS report provides Accident and Illness prevention program (A&IP) guidelines.

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
0.83

Full-time equivalent of employees:
13,047.40

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 :
Accident Tracker software is utilized to track incident data for the University of Pittsburgh.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
0.01

Optional Fields

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

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
OSHA 300A, 300 Logs (2017-2019), Bureau of Labor Statistics
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee (Part 1 above: 0.0099 performance year and 0.014 baseline year).

Web-based program would not allow manual entry of data.

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.