| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.49 |
| Liaison | Elizabeth Swiman |
| Submission Date | March 15, 2023 |
Florida State University
PA-15: Workplace Health and Safety
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.28 / 2.00 |
Marvin
Woods Interim Director EH&S |
Does the institution have an occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)?:
Does the system use a nationally or internationally recognized standard or guideline?:
The nationally or internationally recognized OHSMS standard or guideline used:
A brief description of the key components of the custom OHSMS:
Management and employee participation through development and implementation of policies and procedures, active engagement, and a commitment to a healthy and safe workplace for employees, and compliance with health, safety and environmental laws and regulations.
• System Wide Illness and Injury Prevention - Written programs, training, safety concerns reporting, safety analysis (trending and job safety), hazard identification and mitigation, routine inspections (workplace and equipment), incident reporting and investigation, and emergency response and planning.
All employees at Florida State University must complete new employee orientation training and ongoing training that provide opportunities for employees to advise on health and safety programs. Employees are encouraged to report unsafe acts/conditions and near misses to supervisors, Health & Safety staff, either directly or anonymously through an online reporting tool and the University ethics hotline.
Programs administered by the Environmental Health and Safety Department are as follows.
• Biological Safety
• Industrial Hygiene
• Building Code
• Laboratory Safety
• Chemical Safety
• Radiation Safety
• Environmental Compliance
• Risk Management & Insurance
• Fire Safety
Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health:
Full-time equivalent of employees:
Full-time equivalent of workers who are not employees, but whose work and/or workplace is controlled by the institution:
A brief description of the methodology used to track and calculate the number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health :
OSHA 1904.7(a)
Basic requirement. You must consider an injury or illness to meet the general recording criteria, and therefore to be recordable, if it results in any of the following: death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness. You must also consider a case to meet the general recording criteria if it involves a significant injury or illness diagnosed by a physician or other licensed health care professional, even if it does not result in death, days away from work, restricted work or job transfer, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness.
Annual number of recordable incidents of work-related injury or ill health per 100 FTE employees:
Website URL where information about the occupational health and safety program is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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