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  • Sustainability
  • Empowering our people

    Our 2030 goal

    We’re creating an inclusive and engaging environment, where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop, and thrive.

    Key stats

    75

    employee engagement score (out of 100)

    38 %

    of women in leadership roles

    49 %

    reduction in our all accident frequency rate since 2019/20 (per 200,000 hours)

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    Why it's important

    Our c. 8,500 colleagues are central to achieving our long-term, sustainable success and ensuring we realise our vision of being first choice for all our stakeholders. 

    Our commitment is to create an inclusive and engaging environment, where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop, and thrive.

    We are focused on building the capability, capacity, and culture our business needs to succeed, enabling high performance today while preparing for the future.

    Our 2030 ambitions

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    • Engaged employees:
      Achieve and maintain an employee engagement score in the top 10% of high-performing companies

    • Inclusion:
      Ensure our team is reflective of the customers, suppliers and communities we serve and create an inclusive and engaging environment, where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop, and thrive

    • Health and safety:
      Aim for zero accidents involving our people

    Engaged employees

    Our 2030 ambition: Achieve and maintain an employee engagement score in the top 10% of high-performing companies.

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    Case study

    Go Beyond Amazing: our Employer Value Proposition

    Inclusion for all

    Our 2030 ambition: Ensure our team is reflective of the customers, suppliers and communities we serve and create an inclusive and engaging environment, where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop, and thrive.

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    North American Inspiring Workplaces award

    Gender Pay Gap reporting

    Our Gender Pay Gap reporting reflects our commitment to transparency, progress, and creating an inclusive and engaging environment where everyone is proud and excited to come to work and can perform at their best, develop and thrive.

    RS Group UK Gender Pay Gap Report 2023/24

    RS Ireland Gender Pay Gap Report 2024/25

    RS Group UK Gender Pay Gap Report 2022/23

    Health and safety

    Our 2030 ambition: Aim for zero accidents involving our people.

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    Promoting our safety-first culture

    Additional 2030 ESG ambition areas

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    Advancing sustainability

    Developing sustainable operations and product and service solutions for our customers and our suppliers.

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    Championing youth & communities

    Inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators and supporting our communities worldwide to improve people’s lives and create a more sustainable world.

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    Doing business responsibly

    Ensuring the highest ethical and environmental standards throughout our business and global value chain.