Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.93
Liaison Kelly Wellman
Submission Date Dec. 20, 2016
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Texas A&M University
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.28 / 2.00 Kristen Robinson
Environmental Safety Assistant Manager - OH/IH
Environmental Health & Safety
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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 164 493
Full-time equivalent of employees 7,741 8,530
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.02 0.06

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Sept. 1, 2015 Aug. 31, 2016
Baseline Year Sept. 1, 2008 Aug. 31, 2009

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):
The amount of injuries had increased and a safety program was adopted to find ways to lower these occurrences.

Percentage reduction in workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per FTE employee from baseline:
63.34

Part 2 

Number of workplace injuries and occupational disease cases per 100 FTE employees, performance year:
2.12

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:
Safety teams were established in departments, safety became part of the yearly evaluation process, accident investigation program and near miss program established. Safety training program set up through hands on, computer based, power point, video, webinar, and quest speakers training safety topics every month for all teams with monthly meetings and safety representative present to help train, guide and give input on safety.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
https://ehsd.tamu.edu/Pages/OccSafety.aspx

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