Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.23
Liaison Maria Dahmus
Submission Date June 21, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of St. Thomas
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.69 / 2.00 Colin Brownlow
Director of Environmental Health and Safety
Facilities Management
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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 29 19
Full-time equivalent of employees 1,535 1,531
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.02 0.01

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2017 Dec. 31, 2017
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2007 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):
2007 coincides with the start date for the university's signature of the Climate Commitment.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
0

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
1.89

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:
The University has an overall safety policy, written safety programs, and a comprehensive lab safety program. Monitoring and advising on health and safety programs take place through the Facilities Safety Committee and Laboratory Safety Committee that include management, faculty staff and hourly employees.

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 on the number of recordable injuries come from the university's OSHA Form 300A logs.

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