Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 45.79
Liaison Larry Cook
Submission Date Dec. 4, 2020
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of South Carolina
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.28 / 2.00 Larry Cook
Director
Office of Sustainability
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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 84 183
Full-time equivalent of employees 5,668 5,841
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.01 0.03

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2019 Dec. 31, 2019
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2006 Dec. 31, 2007

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):
This baseline is the baseline USC is utliizing for this year's AASHE STARS submission.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
52.70

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.48

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:
We have worked to identify trends with our injury data and groups or departments with high frequency and severity of injures. Based on trends we worked with groups and departments to improve training, inspections, and culture changes. Also, we provide them with information related to their trends and workers' compensation costs.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://www.sc.edu/ehs/EHSMission.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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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.