Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.18
Liaison Ezra Small
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Massachusetts Amherst
PA-12: Workplace Health and Safety

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.06 / 2.00 Ezra Small
Sustainability Manager
Physical Plant
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Please enter data in the table below::
Performance Year Baseline Year
Number of reportable workplace injuries and occupational disease cases 525 540
Full-time equivalent of employees 6,271.10 6,071.30

Start and end dates of the performance year and baseline year (or three-year periods):
Start Date End Date
Performance Year July 1, 2013 July 1, 2014
Baseline Year July 1, 2005 July 1, 2006

A brief description of when and why the workplace health and safety baseline was adopted:

2005-6 was the year prior to first year that Sondra S. the Physical Plant/EH&S Safety officer started working and when many of the safety initiatives were initiated.


A brief description of the institution’s workplace health and safety initiatives:

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Physical Plant Safety Office implements the campus EHS policies, programs, and practices as applicable to Physical Plant operations, which include Utilities, Grounds, and Building Maintenance.
The primary elements of the Physical Plant program include:
(1) Training
(2) Inspections/ Audits
(3) Accident Prevention/ Investigation
We take a pro-active stance which includes heavy emphasis on hazard awareness & assessment, as well as worker participation in all three of the above elements.
Within these general initiatives we may have specific initiatives at any given time. These may be a campus- initiative, or part of a nation-wide (OSHA) campaign. In 2014 these included “Ladder Safety”, “Motor Vehicle Safety”, and “Working in Laboratories”.


The website URL where information about the institution’s workplace health and safety initiatives is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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