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.

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Operating Safely

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 Weyerhaeuser culture.

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Building an Inclusive Culture 

Attracting, engaging, inspiring and retaining diverse talent is essential to our business. We are focused on creating an equitable, inclusive workplace where all employees feel they belong and are confident they have opportunities to grow and thrive.

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Developing Our People 

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.

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Competitive People Practices 

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.

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Supporting Our Communities 

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.

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Engaging Our Stakeholders

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.

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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.

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Providing Recreational Access 

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.


 

OPERATING SAFELY

Safety is not just a core value — 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) dropped from over 10 in 1990 to 1.89 in 2023. 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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In Their Own Words
Our employees share what safety means to them and how important it is in 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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Transforming Electrical Safety in Columbia Falls, Mont.
“This award truly represents the safety culture we’re building here at Columbia Falls and our commitment to eliminating hazards and reducing risk,” says Jordan LeFever, safety liaison.

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Building An Inclusive Culture

Inclusion is a core value at Weyerhaeuser, and we believe our work on diversity, equity and inclusion is critical for our company and our society. Our goal is to create a truly inclusive work environment where the diversity of our communities is reflected at all levels of our company and everyone has equitable opportunities to contribute, learn and grow.

To help accomplish this, we established an Inclusion Council of 25 diverse employees from all corners of our company who regularly share their ideas about how we can accelerate progress, champion inclusion within their own teams, and support the implementation of our DE&I strategies.

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 2023, our work included educating top leaders about inclusive leadership, expanding our online DE&I training options for all employees, growing our employee resource groups from four to seven, launching a 21-day DE&I challenge, monitoring the diversity of our hiring teams, and strengthening our engagement with Historically Black Universities and Colleges. We also regularly promote awareness and education through companywide stories and employee testimonials, and each year we donate about $200,000 to organizations supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in our operating communities.

We certainly have more work to do, but we are proud of the progress we are making on this journey. In our 2023 survey of all employees, 84 percent agreed their work environment is inclusive, an improvement of 2 percent from the last companywide survey.

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In Their Own Words
Listen to a few of our employees talk about what it means for them to work at Weyerhaeuser.

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Inclusion Matters
In February 2020, we launched an internal blog, “Inclusion Matters,” to explore topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion with our employees. Led by Denise Merle, senior vice president and chief administration officer, the blog was initially only available internally, but we are making most of these posts public, starting with the first one.

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Our Diversity & Inclusion by the Numbers 
We transparently share data related to our company’s racial and gender diversity.

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DEVELOPING OUR PEOPLE

Our employees want to work for a company that cares about their professional growth, and we want people on our team who, when given equitable 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 2023, 93 percent of our salaried employees had an individual development plan. In these plans, employees identify the leadership and business skills and internal relationships they need to build so they can excel at their current role and/or move into a new opportunity. We provide an online toolkit for employees and managers to use while developing and discussing their plans to help drive meaningful and constructive career-coaching conversations.

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 and executive. In 2023, more than 300 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 2023, our employees collectively logged more than 50,000 hours of training in our online learning management system.

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In Their Own Words
Our employees share their professional journey and career paths at Weyerhaeuser.

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Developing Great People
We believe the success of any company depends on the success of its people.

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Growing Her Career Boldly
“Every time I moved up, I got to see the company from a new perspective,” says Zaina Gates, area manager.

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COMPETITIVE PEOPLE PRACTICES

Beyond building a culture of safety, development and inclusion, we also focus on providing competitive pay and benefits that will attract the best talent. We measure the success of our culture and programs through regular employee surveys.

In 2019, we were one of the first companies in our industry to offer paid parental leave; all U.S. nonunion employees may take up to four weeks of fully paid leave upon the arrival of a new child or children in their family. (Our Canadian employees receive parental leave in accordance with provincial employment standards.) This is in addition to our current six-week disability leave for people who give birth, our adoption assistance program and other family-related benefits.

In 2021, we implemented a hybrid work policy that balances on-site work to meet critical business and culture needs with flexibility for some employees to work from home up to two days a week. Our employees are offered a range of medical and healthcare services, including voluntary wellness and health promotion services and programs including tobacco cessation support, health assessments and resources, and worksite health and wellness programs.

As part of our ongoing commitment to listen and respond to employee concerns, we conduct an annual employee feedback survey to gauge responses to a range of workforce factors that drive engagement and retention. In 2023, our overall engagement score was 87 percent (up slightly from the previous year), with 87 percent of employees agreeing they have the training they need to do their jobs well, 84 percent agreeing they’re able to manage their job-related stress, 86 percent agreeing they get enough opportunities to do challenging work, and 80 percent saying they feel like they belong at Weyerhaeuser.

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What We Offer
Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive work environment where all our people experience growth, feel valued for the contribution they make and get rewarded for results.

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People Practices by the Numbers
We share details about compensation and retention metrics in our annual sustainability data.

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Join Us
We are always looking for smart, talented people who are passionate about making a difference.

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SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITIES

We operate in communities of all sizes across Canada and the United States, and we want to see these communities thrive. In fact, supporting Rural Communities is one of the three focus areas of our 3 by 30 Sustainability Ambitions. As part of our Rural Communities commitment, we are proud to give our time and money to help these communities remain vibrant places to live and work. In 2023, we provided $6.2 million in charitable giving to the communities where we operate, and our employees completed 676 Tree-Mendous Program volunteer activities and volunteered over 19,300 hours of their time to causes they care about.

Through our companywide employee giving platform, we provide an easy way for all employees to donate to their favorite charities using payroll deduction. Since 2022, we have been matching employee donations and volunteer time up to $1,500 per employee per year. In 2023, we committed more than $530,000 to match eligible donations and volunteer hours logged by our employees to amplify support for nonprofit organizations in their communities.

In 2023, we also launched two new signature programs to further enhance the level of support we provide our rural communities. The first, THRIVE, involves a commitment to invest $5 million across five of our operating communities that are in most need of extra support – starting with Zwolle, Louisiana. Second is a program called Learn Local, Earn Local, which focuses on youth education and workforce development. These are two of the more ambitious community programs we have launched in years, and we look forward to building on the positive impact we have in our communities and helping ensure they remain thriving places to live and do business.

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Community Giving

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Kicking off a Partnership for Tree Equity
Weyerhaeuser’s partnership with American Forests to expand its Tree Equity program into smaller, more rural communities kicked off with a tree-planting event in Ruston, Louisiana.

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Thriving in Zwolle, Louisiana
We’re working with local elected officials and leaders to invest $1 million in community improvements over the next several years as part of our THRIVE program to support rural operating communities.

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Planting Hope in Idabel, Oklahoma
After a devastating tornado ripped through Idabel, Oklahoma, we rallied to support the community by supporting rescue and recovery efforts – and planting more than 2,000 trees.

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ENGAGING OUR STAKEHOLDERS  

Our commitment to citizenship goes beyond charitable giving and volunteerism. For us, being a good corporate citizen is also about listening to our neighbors and partners — and working to ensure our company is fully engaged in the communities where we live and work. Our engagement process varies widely based on the project, issue or group, and our stakeholders and partners include everyone from customers and suppliers to investors, employees, communities, policymakers and regulators, Indigenous communities, NGOs and nonprofits, universities and research projects.

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Protecting Cultural Heritage
Our Alberta Timberlands team supported the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation in a multi-year project to verify and document locations of culturally significant sites.

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Timberlands: Indigenous Communities

We are committed to developing and maintaining positive relationships with Indigenous communities where we operate.

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We want to hear your feedback on our sustainability strategy and positive impact goals.

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PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 

Drawing on more than a century of experience in sustainable forestry, we share our story and expertise through tours of our forests and facilities across North America, and we also operate two education centers that are open to the public and provide free access to a range of experiential learning opportunities about forestry, ecology and environmental issues. In Washington, our Mount St. Helens Forest Learning Center tells the story of the eruption of Mount St. Helens and the forest’s return through interactive, hands-on activities and visual displays. In North Carolina, our Cool Springs Environmental Education Center offers a 1,700-acre working forest and outdoor classroom for visitors — including school groups — to showcase sustainable forestry working in harmony with wildlife habitat, air quality, water quality and recreational activities.

In addition to our education centers, staff throughout our operations work with local schools and higher education programs to offer educational tours and interactive experiences in our forests. These engagements offer students opportunities to learn about sustainable forest management and careers in forestry and the forest-products industry.

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Mount St. Helens Forest Learning Center

Our free Forest Learning Center tells the remarkable story of a forest's recovery in the wake of the Mount St. Helens eruption.

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Forestry Field Day Tradition Continues
Hundreds of middle- and high-school students from across Coastal Georgia learned about careers in forestry during our 66th Forestry Field Day at the McKinnon Seed Orchard.

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Teaching the Next Generation
Volunteer of the Year Brad Moehlmann introduces Oregon high-school students to career opportunities in the timber industry.

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PROVIDING RECREATIONAL ACCESS

Our millions of acres of U.S. timberlands include spectacular lakes and hardwood forests in the Northeast, expansive Southern pine forests spanning Virginia to Texas, and remote, rugged mountains and scenic rivers in the Pacific Northwest. Whether your passion is birdwatching, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking or cycling, our forests provide exceptional opportunities for outdoor adventure. We are proud to connect people with everything nature has to offer through our lease and permit programs and open access areas.

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Our forests in the United States provide exceptional opportunities for outdoor adventure through our recreational lease and permit programs.

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Opening Access in Arkansas
A new agreement with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission opened Dierks City Pond to public access and expanded local fishing and recreation opportunities.

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Expanding Outdoor Opportunities 
A separate agreement in 2021 opened an additional 89,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser land in northwest Oregon to the public through the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Access & Habitat Program.

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