Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.72
Liaison Alex Frank
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Wisconsin-Madison
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.75 / 2.00 Alex Frank
Sustainability Analyst
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 396 437
Full-time equivalent of employees 17,908.30 17,399.90
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 July 1, 2017 June 30, 2018
Baseline Year July 1, 2012 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):
Tracking and reporting of recordable injuries and occupational diseases (recordables) was centralized and standardized within the area of Risk Management at UW-Madison in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. While FY07 was chosen as the standard baseline year for the STARS report, we were not able to obtain reliable recordable data from FY07 (data obtained appeared to overestimate recordables). Therefore we determined it was better to use the oldest reliable data we could obtain (FY13).

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
11.95

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
2.21

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:
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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 excludes recordables from employees who work primarily at off campus agricultural research stations.

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.