Get Growing: Build a Backyard Garden
Spurred on by April 21st Earth Day - Celebrate our glorious earth by planting a backyard garden - we have all the tools and tips you need to grow! Check out the helpful resources from the Nutrients For Life webpage.
Progressive Agriculture Safety Days® Builds on Healthy Lifestyles Lessons
A new pilot project is being aimed at the growing concern around childhood obesity in the rural U.S. Partially funded by Agrium, these nutrition workshops are being introduced alongside the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day programs.
New donors help drive Combines for Cures
Agrium is proud to be one of the founding sponsors of the Combines for Cures™ initiative, together with the Prostate Cancer Centre in Alberta. Following a successful pilot project in 2012, they are starting off this year with an exciting announcement.
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Sustainability
Sustainability
Partnership Brings Positive Change - Agrium & Millennium Promise
Share, educate, advocate, and change the world. That’s what the Millennium Villages Project is actively engaging in to help address the root causes of extreme poverty.Sustainability
Agrium provides the products, services and culture that help people grow. Growth is important, but not at any cost to the planet or society. We’re helping growers grow healthy plants in environmentally and socially responsible ways. And as our company grows, we integrate our commitment to responsibility into our new businesses and communities.
For further information or to contact us, please email sustainability@agrium.com
Management Approach
The strategic management of sustainability is shared among numerous corporate groups: Sustainability & Stakeholder Relations, EHS&S, Human Resources (HR), Investor Relations and Legal, among others. These groups monitor best practices, develop policies and standards, and support business units. The daily management of sustainability commitments and implementation of programs is guided by business unit leaders. The Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and the Corporate EHS&S Committee, both with Senior Leadership Team membership, set priorities, monitor performance, and investigate long-term targets in conjunction with the corporate groups and operations.
Performance
Agrium is committed to measuring and reporting our sustainability performance in a transparent manner. Transparency not only holds us accountable to our stakeholders, it also motivates us to improve our performance. We see this report as a management tool that will help us identify areas where we can improve performance to maximize our net-positive impacts on society, the environment and the economy.
Governance
Our Board of Directors view effective corporate governance as an essential element for the ongoing sustainability of Agrium and its operations. We continue to develop our corporate governance practices to ensure that we meet regulatory requirements, and in consideration of recommendations from institutional shareholders and interested stakeholders. We evaluate our mechanisms on an ongoing basis and strive to ensure our corporate governance practices provide for effective stewardship in all targeted areas of sustainability.
Recognition
Another measure of our performance is the external recognition we receive for our initiatives and operational excellence.
Environmental Stewardship
Improving the Health of a River
In 2011, Agrium joined two other companies that mine phosphate ore in southeastern Idaho to form a partnership with two conservation groups to improve the health of the Upper Blackfoot River.Environmental Stewardship
To make meaningful environmental change we must measure our impact, determine and revise targets, integrate policies and programs into our culture and then measure again. Agrium focuses its primary environmental efforts in the following areas:
Management Approach
Agrium stewards to an integrated Environment, Health, Safety and Security Management System that includes a policy and minimum management and performance expectations applicable to our facilities worldwide. Agrium’s business units and, where appropriate, individual facilities augment these requirements with system controls necessary to manage the risks unique to those operations.
Performance
Agrium measures and reports our environmental performance in a transparent manner.
Governance
The Board committee directly responsible for environmental issues is the Environment, Health, Safety & Security (EHS&S) Committee. The Corporate EHS&S Committee, with Senior Leadership Team membership, sets priorities, monitors performance, and investigates long-term targets in conjunction with corporate functions
Recognition
Another measure of our performance is the external recognition we receive for our environmental initiatives.
Safety
DRIVING TOWARD SAFETY
Recognizing that many national and regional laws have recently been passed regarding mobile devices and driver distraction, Agrium updated its practices with a new entity-wide Safe Driving Policy.Safety
Not only is the safety of our employees, contractors and the public a precondition to our social license to operate, it is a moral imperative. Our employee, public and product safety programs are aimed at providing the awareness, training, procedures, equipment and follow-up to ensure a culture of safety at Agrium. Our ultimate goal is zero injuries.
Agrium focuses our primary safety efforts in the following areas:
Management Approach
Our safety approach incorporates management systems, regular audits, stakeholder engagement and corrective action tracking.
Governance
We are committed to the highest standards of safety governance practices and procedures.
Recognition
Another measure of our performance is the external recognition we receive for our safety initiatives.
Employees
Agrium Women’s Leadership Group (AWLG)
The AWLG was established to provide mentoring, networking and development opportunities for women within Agrium, and as a means to attract and retain female employees at Agrium.Employees
Agrium’s impact on our employees’ overall well-being can be considerable as we develop and implement workplace practices, compensation programs, and career development plans. In any workplace there is potential for personal injury, harassment, disrespect, or boredom. There is also potential to improve employee well being through enhanced job satisfaction, financial security and career advancement.
Agrium focuses its primary employee efforts in the following areas:
Management Approach
The corporate Human Resources (HR) group is responsible for the governance and oversight of employee programs and services. Each business unit has a head of HR who is responsible for employee program implementation.
Performance
Agrium measures and reports our employee practices performance in a transparent manner.
Governance
We are committed to the highest standards of employment governance practices and procedures. The Board committee most involved in employee issues is the Human Resources & Compensation Committee.
Recognition
Another measure of our performance is the external recognition we receive for our employee practices initiatives.
Role in Society
Recent Roundtable Brings Together Key Program Partners
A recent meeting held at the Agrium head office in Calgary served as a first-time forum for several not-for-profit organizations to collaborate and generate program ideas.Role in Society
Given our presence across the value chain, Agrium is uniquely positioned to understand broad evolving trends and challenges in agriculture. And because we are a global company we also feel we are ideally situated—and obligated—to make significant contributions to society both locally and globally.
Agrium focuses its primary efforts in society in the following areas:
- Food Supply & Security
- Our Role in Economic Development
- Community Relations
- Multi-stakeholder Initiatives
Management Approach
The strategic management of sustainability is shared among numerous corporate groups: Sustainability & Stakeholder Relations, EHS&S, Human Resources, Investor Relations and Legal, among others. These groups monitor best practices, develop policies and standards, and support business units. The daily management of sustainability commitments and implementation of programs is guided by business unit leaders.
Performance
Agrium measures and reports our performance on society issues in a transparent manner.
Governance
We have numerous policies and committees that help to ensure that our role in society is a positive one. For example, our Community Outreach Policy requires each production facility to develop a community outreach plan and to provide timely information to the community.
Recognition
Another measure of our performance is the external recognition we receive for our community and global initiatives.
