Our Commitment

Ensuring that our team members feel safe, welcome and valued at work is an important area of focus for Samuel. In 2020, we formalized our commitment with the launch of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Program, focused on creating and improving across our business.

Plan of Action

We know that successful change requires more than targets – it requires solid action plans.

We've tasked our leaders across the company to create DEI Playbooks for their business division or site to address opportunity areas. DEI training sessions were held for leaders to provide the information they needed to develop their location’s community outreach plans.

To ensure quantifiable progress in all three areas of DEI, we have developed the following targets: 

We’re Proud of Our Progress

Samuel is proud of our progress across all three DEI priority areas including:

• Outreach efforts are underway with teams connecting with local high schools, colleges, community organizations and not-for-profit organizations to create employment pathways for under-represented groups such as youth, women, immigrants and Indigenous peoples.
• Identifying and addressing systemic barriers in recruitment for underrepresented groups by analyzing our historical talent metrics in the areas of hiring, attrition and promotions.
• Creating action plans to increase representation at all levels.
• Ensuring every effort is made to include diverse candidates for every open position across the organization.