Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.26
Liaison Gioia Thompson
Submission Date March 1, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

University of Vermont
PA-14: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 2.00 Mary Dewey
Director
Risk Management & 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 110 105
Full-time equivalent of employees 3,676 3,663
Number of injuries and cases per FTE employee 0.03 0.03

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year Jan. 1, 2015 Dec. 31, 2015
Baseline Year Jan. 1, 2012 Dec. 31, 2014

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 University established a health and safety baseline in 1988 to track and investigate workplace injuries, with the goal of elimination and reduction of accident related illnesses, injuries and property and environmental damages.

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:
2.99

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 is committed to supporting the safety, health and welfare of the campus community. The program provides all UVM departments and individual members of our campus a variety of health and safety trainings, injury tracking and investigation and proposes solutions to occupational and environmental health and safety problems. As a result, the department of Risk Management and Safety have trained staff dedicated to the oversight of various health and safety programs such as Fire Safety, Office Ergonomics, Laboratory Safety and Driver Training. Detailed information about UVM’s various programs can be found at the link provided below.

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
http://www.uvm.edu/~riskmgmt/?Page=workplace/workplacesafety.html&SM=workplace/workplacesafety_submenu.html

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Risk Management Handbook: http://www.uvm.edu/~riskmgmt/RiskMgmtHndbk.PDF Environmental Health & Safety Website: http://www.uvm.edu/safety/

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