Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 74.85
Liaison Andrea Trimble
Submission Date Feb. 8, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Virginia
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.88 / 2.00 Tim White
Senior Immigration Consultant
Human Resources
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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:
UVA does not typically use ISO or similar international standards for occupational health and safety management systems. We comply with national and state regulations (e.g. OSHA), recognized consensus guidelines (e.g. CDC/NIH for biosafety), as well as pertinent occupational health and safety standards set by organizations such as ANSI, UL, NIOSH and American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH).

Part 2. Incidents per FTE employee

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
381

Full-time equivalent of employees:
16,432

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 incidents reported to UVA are entered into MC Innovations’ web portal and the MC Innovations team processes the claims for the State of Virginia Department of Human Resource Management. DHRM tracks the incidents, and calculates based on the state’s fiscal year (July 1 – June 30). The data above has been calculated based on the 2022 calendar year, based on DHRM data.

Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
2.32

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
http://ehs.virginia.edu/

Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This credit is evaluating the Academic and Medical Center Employees of the University.

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