Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 65.54
Liaison C Jane Hagen
Submission Date Sept. 3, 2024

STARS v2.2

Virginia Commonwealth University
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.55 / 2.00 C Jane Hagen
Sustainability Data Analyst
Sustainability
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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 Occupational Safety program at VCU is designed to support employees’ and students'; right to work
in an environment free of recognized hazards that may cause illness or injury. We accomplish this by:
 Hazard analysis and safety consulations
 Promoting Safety initiatives
 Facilitate learning through creation and distribution of safety training
 Identification of hazardous enviornments and hazardous behaviors through regular internal safety
audits.
 Encourage collaboration to foster safety culture and alignment of effort
 Increase compliance by leveraging robust recordkeeping systems


Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
36

Full-time equivalent of employees:
6,766

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 :

 All emloyee injuries are reported to Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission via VCU
Human Resources and our third party claims management company.
 A summary claim is forwarded to VCU Occupational Safety.
 All reported injuries are investigated internally by VCU Occupational Safety.

 

 VCU Occupational Safety makes the determination if a particular injury or illness is OSHA
Reportable or OSHA Recordable based on OSHA rules and requirements.
 All OSHA Recordable injuries are mainained on the OSHA 300 log. Injury rates are calculated
consistent with OSHA rules and requirements.
 All reported injuries, recordable or not, are maintained in an internal database and used to track
potenital safety trends and identify areas for safety program improvement.


Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
0.53

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
https://srm.vcu.edu/

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

Calendar year 2023 


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