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®

Acuity Associates Working to Make Communities Better We care about the environment and our neighbors. We make communities better.

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Moving Atlanta Forward – Like many major metropolitan areas, Acuity's hometown of Atlanta faces the difficult challenge of educating and identifying work opportunities for youth outside of the path of a two- or four-year degree program. We’ve established a flagship career exploration partnership 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 workforce shortage of electricians, lab technicians, and truck drivers. Students will earn certification and credits toward certification to obtain jobs in essential fields. As part of the partnership, we provide training courses, certified instructors for each course, equipment, materials, mentors, in-person and virtual-classroom training, and 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 0.83 in FY22, against an industry rate of 2.0 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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0.80

0.45

0.36

0.34

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Average Recordable Incident Rate for our Industry

Acuity's 2022 Total Recordable Incident Rate

Our Industry's 2022 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)

Making Atlanta Greener – Helping build team spirit and foster associate engagement, members of our Marketing and Sustainability team worked over three hours in partnership with the charitable organization Trees Atlanta. The team helped to maintain and weed 100 trees along the Atlanta BeltLine Arboretum – one of the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment programs in the United States. Making Communities Cleaner – The Women’s Network empowered its members to get together to improve their local environments. Associates from our Conyers, Georgia; Des Plaines, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; and Monterrey, Mexico facilities partnered with local organizations to participate in community waste-removal events. Making Spaces Better – To help create a family-friendly environment for the local community, the Indiana Production Facility in Crawfordsville collaborated with the Montgomery County 4H Club. Working as a team, they relit the community’s facility to create a more energy-efficient and safer space to host events for the city’s youth. The transition to new lighting will help the 4H community save over 22,000 kWh of energy annually. Making Spaces Safer – Acuity donated Lithonia Lighting® JBEL fixtures for the Atlanta Police Foundation’s newly renovated At-Promise Center, youth crime diversion program. The center is designed to reduce crime by giving youth a safe space to go after school. Encouraging STEM education – In honor of Juneteenth, our MAGIC ERG gave back to the local community by volunteering with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which provides pediatric care to Georgia's young people. To combine education and entertainment, MAGIC packaged and delivered 100 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) activity kits for patients, which included science kits, painting supplies, stickers, math books, coloring books, and more. Turning Footsteps into Service – Distech Controls associates in Europe raised more than €7,000 by collectively running or walking 400 kilometers. Donations were made to Guide Dogs for the Blind, as well as to services for local homeless and at-risk individuals.

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

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/ 0 fatalities

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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