Social Responsibility
Social Responsibility Growing our people and communities
We depend on people to succeed, and we take our responsibility to treat everybody with respect and care seriously, both inside and outside our company. We need diverse, talented workers to grow, innovate and thrive with us for decades to come. We also need strong communities around us, filled with people who trust and appreciate our work and grant us our license to continue operating.
This commitment means doing everything we can to create a safe, inclusive work environment where employees are excited and proud to spend their whole careers. It also means investing in the communities where we operate so they remain vibrant, prosperous places to live and work.
Throughout our long history, social responsibility has been an integral part of how we do business, and it will continue to guide our success long into the future.
Our safety value is rooted in our conviction that all safety incidents are preventable and that operating injury-free is possible. Safety is at the core of everything we do and is a fundamental part of the 性福啪 culture.
Attracting, engaging, inspiring and retaining diverse talent is essential to our business. We are focused on creating a fair, inclusive workplace where all employees feel they belong and are confident they have opportunities to grow and thrive.
Helping our people realize their full potential is a win for them and a win for us. We are intentional about developing our people at all levels of the company and at all stages of their careers.
To attract and retain top talent, we offer competitive pay and benefits. We regularly review our policies and programs and monitor the health of our culture through annual employee surveys.
We operate in communities across North America and are proud to invest time and money to help ensure they are thriving places to live and work.
We depend on many different stakeholders to operate our business and strive to be a good corporate citizen by listening to their questions and concerns and being transparent about how we work.
Promoting Environmental Education
We believe we have a responsibility to share our sustainable forestry and manufacturing expertise with others. From offering tours to operating learning centers, we provide opportunities for hands-on engagement with our forests and operations.
We grant recreational access to our lands so people in our communities can connect with nature and enjoy all our forests have to offer, from hiking and camping to hunting, fishing and a range of other outdoor activities.
Safety is a鈥�core value鈥�— it distinguishes the way we operate and work together. Through sustained effort over many decades, we have made significant progress toward reducing injuries in our workplace, and we are committed to ongoing improvements on our journey to operating injury-free.
We use a common set of simple, proven tools to manage safety effectively. We focus on eliminating our highest risks via preventive safety measures, such as hazard identification and elimination, and we proactively share key learnings and critical actions across our organization. Our Recordable Incident Rate (the number of Occupational Safety and Health Administration-defined recordable injuries and illnesses that occur in 100 workers working in one year) has dropped from over 10 in 1990 to 1.99 in 2024. Any injury is one too many, but we are encouraged by the progress we have made to mitigate our highest-risk areas and reduce the number and type of injuries our people experience at work.
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Sustainability
OPERATING Safely
Our employees share what safety means to them and how important it is鈥痠n their day-to-day work.
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Safety by the Numbers
We publicly share our key safety metrics, from serious incidents to hazards fixed.
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Safety that Comes From the HEART
The Hazard Evaluation and Review Team, a safety subcommittee at our EWP plant in Buckhannon, West Virginia, guides the plant’s people-oriented approach to safety.
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Inclusion is a core value at 性福啪, and we believe our work building an inclusive culture is critical for our company. Our goal is to create a truly inclusive work environment where everyone has opportunities to contribute, learn and grow.
To help accomplish our goal, we established an Inclusion Council of 25 employees from all corners of our company who regularly share their ideas about how we can accelerate progress and champion inclusion within their own teams.
Each year, we set goals to drive improvement in three key areas: leadership, people and culture. We then monitor how well those actions drive improvement over time. In 2024, our work included educating top leaders about inclusive leadership, expanding our online inclusion training options for all employees, and growing membership in our employee resource groups by 63 percent. We also regularly promote awareness and education through companywide stories and employee testimonials.
We have more work to do, but we are proud of the progress we are making on this journey. In our 2024 survey of all employees, 84 percent agreed their work environment is inclusive, which is the same response we received from employees in 2023 and up two percent from 2020 when we first began asking this question.
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Sustainability
Inclusion
Listen to a few of our employees talk about what it means for them to work at 性福啪.
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Inclusion Matters
In February 2020, we launched an internal blog, “Inclusion Matters,” led by Denise Merle, senior vice president and chief administration officer.
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Inclusion by the Numbers
We transparently鈥痵hare data on a range of demographic information.
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Our employees want to work for a company that cares about their professional growth, and we want people on our team who, when given fair opportunities to do so, strive to continually learn and grow throughout their careers.
Our employee development program has a three-pronged approach: formal education and training opportunities, exposure and relationship building, and on-the-job experience that grows skills and competencies.
To facilitate growth in these areas, employees work with their managers to identify the right mix of education, exposure and experience that will help them meet their professional-growth goals. In 2024, 92 percent of our salaried employees had an individual development plan. In these plans, employees identify the leadership, business and technical skills they need to acquire to excel in their current role and/or move into a new opportunity. They also identify internal relationships they need to build to help them on their career journey, and we provide an online toolkit for both employees and managers to help facilitate meaningful and constructive career-coaching conversations while developing and discussing these plans.
We continually sharpen and expand our formal training and education opportunities. We offer three classroom-based leadership development programs, one for each level of leadership: front-line, mid-level鈥痑nd future executive. In 2024, more than 350 leaders participated in these programs. In recent years, we have also expanded our suite of asynchronous online learning opportunities and increased our capacity to deliver on-demand virtually facilitated training. In 2024, our employees collectively logged more than 65,000 hours of training in our online learning management system.