Our People and Communities

We inspire and connect the Acuity Brands community and the communities in which we live and work. Individually we are talented, but together we are unstoppable.

Health & Safety

Our People

We create the environment where the best people come to do their best work. We all succeed together.

Health & Safety

PRIDE aims to create a safe space where the LGBTQIA community and allies feel supported, and are able to discuss their needs, challenges, and obstacles, and proudly celebrate professional and personal moments.

Minorities Amplifying Growth, Inclusion, and Community (MAGIC)

MAGIC is designed to foster a supportive, nurturing environment to help minority associates realize their full potential at Acuity Brands and drive return on investment for the company. MAGIC embraces, celebrates, and recognizes the power of diversity and is open to all associates.

People Respecting Identity, Diversity, and Equity (PRIDE)

Our Employee Resource Groups

We strive to ensure our associates have a safe and collaborative work environment through the inclusion of world class health and safety management practices in our business. Our Environmental, Health & Safety Management System is based on the goals and guidelines of the International Standards of Operation for Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001), International Standards for Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (ISO 45001), and our guiding principles identified in detail in our EarthLIGHT report.

We have a culture of caring that extends beyond our facilities into the neighborhoods in which we live and work.

Our Communities

Philanthropic Efforts

American Red Cross® Blood Drives Dress for Success® Feeding America Hands Across Rockdale Hospital Universitario, Monterrey, MX – Financial and Volunteer Contributions Junior Achievement Kaiser Permanente® Corporate Run, Walk, & Roll Moisson Rive-Sud, Canada The Needy Family Fund – Feeding Families in need in Rockdale County PAWS - Animal Shelter Drive Secours Populaire, France Toys for Tots®

Making Communities Better In fiscal 2023, our associates found even more impactful ways to make communities better, neighborhoods greener, and spaces brighter. Here are just a few examples:

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Summer Youth Employment Program Like many major metropolitan areas in the U.S., Acuity Brands’ hometown of Atlanta, Georgia faces the difficult challenge of educating and identifying work opportunities for youth outside of the path of a two- or four-year degree program. In fiscal 2023, Acuity partnered with the City of Atlanta and Atlanta Technical College (ATC) to sponsor a paid career exploration program that combines classroom and hands-on practice to address the current workforce shortage of electricians, lab technicians, and truck drivers. The partnership program was launched with 21 students from metro Atlanta for six weeks of professional development programming with the goal of obtaining jobs in these essential fields. As part of the partnership, Acuity developed training courses and provided certified instructors for each course, along with equipment, materials, mentors, in-person and virtual-classroom training, and in-person career exploration days at Acuity Brands’ facilities.

Community Engagement

We’re working to emerge from the greatest public health crisis in a century with superior strength, expanded capabilities, and even greater resiliency.

Our Response to COVID-19

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We have made decisions with the health and well-being of our associates and their families as our top priority, while working diligently to operate effectively for our sales channel partners and customers. Read more about our team’s commitments and actions taken in the face of a global pandemic.

Acuity Brands’ Total Recordable Incident Rate is 0.60 in FY23, against an industry rate of 3.4 in that same period.

We believe this new way of working is transformative. Acuity offers flexibilty for our associates; facilitates greater access to the best talent; allows us to keep pace with customer needs; and supports our EarthLIGHT sustainability and social initiatives

Acuity

50,000

Anywhere

Estimated reduction in carbon emissions associated with key inputs: steel, aluminum, cardboard, and diesel fuel. This represents a 9.55% reduction in FY20 from FY19.

metric tons

6,535

of Raw Materials

Driving Efficient Use

The number of N95 and surgical masks we distributed to fire departments and hospitals during the acute shortage by leveraging our supply chain

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Communities in Pandemic

Contributing to our

1.04 Acuity Brands’ Total Recordable Incident Rate is 1.04, down from 1.34 in FY19, and against an industry rate of 3.20

Health & Safety

1.04 Acuity Brands’ Total Recordable Incident Rate is 1.04, down from 1.34 in FY19, and against an industry rate of 3.20

Health & Safety

The Women's Network empowers, embraces, and encourages women in all functions to enhance a diversity of ideas and approaches that drive business growth and improved financial results. The Women’s Network organizes networking events, mentoring groups, lunch-and-learns, and an engaging guest speaker series. The group is open to all associates.

Women's Network

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0.34

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Average Recordable Incident Rate for our Industry

Acuity's 2023 Total Recordable Incident Rate (reduction from 0.83 to 0.60)

Our Industry's 2023 Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR)

Acuity's 2021 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

Acuity's 2019 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

Acuity's 2018 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

Acuity's 2017 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

FY22 AESS Score:

AESS measures 80% leading and 20% lagging indicators

Acuity Brands outperforms our industry and seeks to continuously reduce workplace injuries

Our lost time rate is also well below the industry average, in part due to our focus on exposures

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Plus, together with our agency network, we’re doing good in local communities through our EarthLIGHT in Action program.

Agents click here to get more involved.

Plus, together with our agency network, we’re doing good in local communities through our EarthLIGHT in Action program.

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0.42

Acuity's 2022 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

In Atlanta, members of our MAGIC ERG planted 30 trees in South Stone Mountain alongside the NAACP and Trees Atlanta on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Our Customer Experience team hosted a networking event to benefit PAWS Atlanta. Our Marketing team packed 1,000 lunches with handwritten notes of encouragement for underprivileged children in sustainable, reusable lunch bags for the Atlanta Community Food Bank. In an initiative led by our Veteran’s Network ERG, our associates sent over 230 letters to show kindness and bring joy to deployed active-duty service members, recruits, veterans, and first responders in support of Operation Gratitude. In Montreal, our ABL Specialty team planted a rooftop urban garden at our Eureka facility, creating a healthy environment for bees and other local pollinators. This team also assembled 50 bags of personal care items to help unhoused people stay warm in winter. In Mexico, associates headed to Professor Cruz Lino Marquez Elementary School in Matamoros to share eco-friendly practices and donate trees and soil during the school’s Environmental Awareness Week. Plus, 164 Acuity Brands associates, along with parents, teachers, and suppliers, fixed up schools in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. In Crawfordsville, our Indiana Production Facility (IPF) team helped relight Athens Arts, a local visual arts facility. Acuity Brands donated and installed STACK™ lighting fixtures from Lithonia Lighting® and Juno® TRAC fixtures to save the nonprofit an estimated 5,863 kWh of energy and avoid an estimated 2.5 metric tons of CO2 annually compared to the facility’s previous fixtures. And associates collected and delivered 800 turkeys and 1,200 pounds of food to families in need, for the FISH Food Pantry of Montgomery County and other nonprofits for Thanksgiving. In Colorado, our associates partnered with the International Association of Lighting Designers Denver Chapter and Wish for Wheels to donate new bikes and helmets to second graders at Colfax Elementary School in Colorado. Across the globe, associates collectively donated more than 5,300 toys, 200 gifts, and more than 200 pounds of winter clothing, and fulfilled 28 holiday wish lists for families and kids in need over the holidays. In Atlanta, associates from our Sourcing team joined suppliers A.L.P. Lighting and Roytec for a day of service at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch, which serves young men in foster care in Waleska, Georgia. Plus, our associates teamed up with 30 local suppliers to collect school supplies to benefit Rockdale County Schools in Georgia.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and employee resource groups.

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0.39

Acuity's 2020 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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Mind Matters’ purpose is to educate and elevate the dialogue around mental health so that Acuity can continue to be the place where the best people come to do their best work. Mind Matters will accomplish this by educating associates on mental health topics, encouraging conversations to reduce stigma, and advocating and increasing awareness of mental health support and resources to be leveraged from Acuity benefit programs and beyond.

Mind Matters

We have a rich history of community engagement and encourage all associates to find new and more effective ways to help our neighbors as well as the environment. Some fiscal 2022 highlights of our associates making a difference in their community include:

The Veterans Network supports all Acuity Brands associates who are veterans, active-duty military, serving in the military reserve or national guard, who are family members of those who are serving or have served, or others interested in this community. The Veterans Network's goal is to foster belonging, inclusivity, development, and other positive support for our associate members and those who participate in our programming.

Veterans Network

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0.25

Acuity's 2023 LTIR (all locations worldwide; reduction from 0.42 to 0.25)

3.4

Average Recordable Incident Rate for our Industry

0.60

Acuity's 2023 Total Recordable Incident Rate (reduction from 0.83 to 0.60)

Acuity Brands outperforms our industry and seeks to continuously reduce workplace injuries

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0.34

Acuity's 2017 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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0.36

Acuity's 2018 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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0.45

Acuity's 2019 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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0.39

Acuity's 2020 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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0.36

Acuity's 2021 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

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0.42

Acuity's 2022 LTIR (all locations worldwide)

1.5

Our Industry's 2023 Lost Time Incident Rate (LTIR)

Our lost time rate is also well below the industry average, in part due to our focus on exposures