Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 56.94
Liaison Scott Morgan
Submission Date Dec. 21, 2023

STARS v2.2

Evergreen State College, The
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.55 / 2.00 Shaina Thompson
Graduate Sustainability Fellow
Office of Sustainability
"---" 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?:
Yes

The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
Federal OSHA

If no, provide:

A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
We have an accident prevention program, a training system, as well as a system of hazard detection and correction.

https://www.osha.gov/stateplans/wa

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
6

Full-time equivalent of employees:
500

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 :
The Environmental Safety & Health Manager maintains annual OSHA 300/A logs/summaries of the number of cases, days, injury and illness types each year. See attachment for 2021's log.

There is a discrepancy between the total number of employees reported on the OSHA log in 2021 (919) and the FTE of employees provided by Evergreen's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (500), but we are unable to confirm employment status of those counted by the Environmental Safety & Health Manager.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
1.20

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
https://www.evergreen.edu/offices-services/environmental-health-and-safety

Additional documentation to support the submission:
OSHA_2021_Summary.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We follow what is outlined by the Washington State Division of Occupational Safety and Health as that is who has direct jurisdiction over us.

https://lni.wa.gov/safety-health/
https://www.osha.gov/stateplans/wa

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