Environmental
Carbon emissions and energy efficiencyNatural resource conservation
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Kelly is committed to protecting and maintaining our planet for future generations. Our environmental initiatives focus on providing safe and sustainable work environments by quantifying and mitigating the environmental footprint of our operations, prioritizing energy efficiency in our workplaces, and promoting practices that foster a culture of preservation, conservation, and waste reduction.
Adjust Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction targets, taking into consideration the improvements to reporting in 2022 that expanded our approach for our emissions calculations to additional locations with operational control.
Develop a climate strategy to mitigate, remove, and compensate for our impact, and align emission reduction targets with science to limit global warming to a 1.5°C ambition level by 2050.
Increase transparency on climate disclosure metrics, including integrating climate risk analysis and Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) disclosures in the next three years.
Deliver continual advancement of workplace safety solutions and performance across our specialty businesses.
We adjusted our carbon emissions and expanded the approach of Scope 1 and 2 to include additional locations with operational control.
In 2022, we conducted our first climate risk assessment to prioritize actions to reduce risks and find opportunities that align with our business strategy. We used a Climate Change scenario approach to hypothetically represent future conditions and impacts of climate change based on a set of assumptions and conditions. These scenarios help us explore different possible outcomes and inform decision-making and planning.
We continue to report on progress and transparently increase environmental disclosures by 2025 through our Corporate Sustainability and ESG report, CDP, and other external assessments that evaluate our performance.
Recycled over 33.85 tons of paper through our vendor recycling program, saving over 620 trees, 200,100 gallons of water, and 127,880 kWh of energy.
13.48 tons of e-waste diverted from landfills, and over 2,100 units remarketed in partnership with Dynamic.
Since 2010, Kelly has maintained our zero-injury program, Absolute Zero.
In 2022, Kelly outperformed our peers in the staffing industry by 89% Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) and 88% Days Away/Restricted and Transferred Incident Rate (DART), compared to 2021 BLS industry averages. Note: Current year industry averages were not available at the time of publishing.
Kelly has two Certified Safety Professionals (CSPs) on staff to serve as a resource to our clients and talent.
We continue to work on improving our internal data gathering and validation processes to increase accuracy and completeness of our greenhouse gas emissions across Scope 1, 2, and 3, in alignment with the GHG Protocol: Corporate Standard. This process will allow us to set targets aligned with Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in the future and increase transparency with upcoming non-financial regulations, including the SEC climate-risk assessment rules.
Our priority is to increase outreach and visibility of our carbon metrics across additional locations with operational control to identify mitigation, removal, and compensation opportunities that will guide our sustainability efforts by 2030.
During 2022, a cross-functional team of Kelly employees participated in activities to assess global climate-related risks that could impact the company. As part of these activities, the team analyzed the ongoing physical and transitional risks related to climate change and its impact on Kelly and our business. This analysis looked at current state risks of global warming – both to the world and Kelly’s part in it. The team conducted further analysis on the primary impacts of climate change to identify larger scale trends that could occur as climate change progresses, as well as cascading impacts that are an indirect result of climate change and responses to it. Finally, the analysis was conducted to identify opportunities for Kelly to evaluate opportunities for contributing to solutions through targeting business opportunities in, among other things, clean energy and derivatives, resource scarcity, upskilling, workforce planning for population and demographic shifts, and regulatory changes.
Our priority to mitigate and reduce greenhouse gases emissions within our climate strategy focuses on increasing energy efficiency processes in facilities and assets with direct operational control*. In our headquarters campus in Troy, Michigan, Kelly partners with property managers to measure and promote more sustainable sources of energy that could increase efficiencies and reduce electricity and natural gas consumption. Although this facility accounts for most of our energy consumption, we also collaborate with local facilities across global operations and partner with IT Data Center vendors to estimate energy consumption metrics and prioritize more efficient IT and cloud-computing services to increase the use of renewable sources of energy.
In 2022, Kelly estimated energy metrics from facilities with operational control*, including the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, and Australia, and electricity consumption from IT assets located at our third-party vendor data center. Our priority continues to focus on monitoring and tracking energy intensity metrics and finding opportunities to reduce energy consumption and use alternative renewable energy sources.
*Kelly subsidiaries are not included in 2022 GHG emissions accounting.
Water usage in our global offices is primarily for employee usage. Although we are not a water-intensive user, we have adopted green building practices in our headquarters to minimize the amount of water usage in our everyday operations and reduce the consumption of landscape irrigation. We also conduct regular analyses to identify facilities operating in high-risk water stress areas.
Installation of smart-sensor and low-flow fixtures in faucets and toilets; controlled irrigation systems that reduce water use and have impermeable brick pavers to mitigate stormwater runoff; and external gardens feature grass and plants that consume less water.
Continue partnering with vendors who ensure water reduction processes. In 2022, our vendor recycling program contributed to saving approximately 200,100 gallons of water. According to our recycling vendor, each ton of recycled paper reduces water demand by 58 percent, reducing air pollution and the need for lumber and other manufacturing resources.
Our waste is mainly generated from using paper and other office-related activities. We continually partner with vendors to prioritize recycling and waste reduction programs to reduce our impact.
Through our e-waste program, 13.48 tons of e-waste were recycled and diverted from a landfill, and over 2,100 hardware assets were remarketed in the US.
We have partnered with vendors to implement recycling procedures and guarantee reuse and the final disposition of paper and toner cartridges from printers and copiers in our office buildings. In 2022, our recycling initiative saved 127,880 kWh of energy, helping preserve over 620 trees and 200,100 gallons of water.
We have implemented responsible procurement guidelines for acquiring and using office products made from 100 percent recycled content and environmentally friendly materials.
Kelly aims to keep old office furniture from landfills. In 2022, we contributed approximately 150 office chairs to a local nonprofit organization during renovations of some of our Corporate Headquarters’ offices in Troy, Michigan. Office furniture and multiple personal protection equipment items were also donated to a local school in efforts to divert waste from landfills and make an impact in our communities.
Kelly is committed to the highest safety and health standards through continually advancing workplace safety solutions for our employees and the global workforce. Our people are our most important asset. Our Global Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) team serves as internal subject matter experts to actively collaborate with employees, customers, industry peers, and government agencies in designing and sharing the best practices to mitigate employee accidents and occupational hazards.
Since 2017, Kelly has held the Safety Standard of Excellence Mark, provided by the American Staffing Association and the National Security Council.
Kelly’s Safety, Health and Environmental team are members of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and Industrial Hygiene Society.
Kelly participates in the OSHA Temporary Worker Initiative and the American Staffing Association (ASA) Safety Subcommittee. In 2022, Kelly met with members of the Federal OSHA under a formal alliance to protect temporary workers.
As the COVID pandemic continues to impact our world, Kelly’s Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom (SETT) business unit introduced “FORE- Facilities and Operations Resiliency Engineering” to provide an end-to-end system for comprehensive and viable COVID on-site testing that facilitates infection screening to increase the health and safety of our talent at participating customers. This program started by leveraging strengths in recruiting and placing trained personnel to manage the onsite collection process for easy testing and result through a lab partner for our customer. In 2022, the SETT team worked with specific clients to develop a turnkey COVID testing solution to expand services across customers and school districts, and college campuses across the U.S.
In 2022, the annual Coffee with MIOSHA outreach event was co-hosted by Kelly and the American Society of Safety Professionals for the Greater Detroit Chapter, in an in-person event held at Kelly’s headquarters in Troy, Michigan. The event was an opportunity for employers and employees to collaborate with regulators on best practices for workplace safety and health, and learn about initiatives, grants, and training opportunities. This year, MIOSHA announced $250,000 in grants to match employer safety improvement projects and a new scholarship and equivalency arrangement with Oakland University, who holds the only ABET Accredited Occupational Health and Safety program in the region. With participation of more than sixty-four industry professionals, employees, and students, the event served as an opportunity to connect, learn, and address questions directly from MIOSHA’s consultation, education, and training division representatives to adopt best safety practices and advocate for continuous improvement.
Kelly’s Absolute Zero program is led by our Global Safety, Health and Environmental team. It reflects our ongoing commitment to the absolute safety of our workforce by providing global employees with a framework of how to practice the highest safety standards as well as proactive initiatives to identify, assess, mitigate, and prevent occupational illnesses and injuries in the workplace.
The Absolute Zero program is Kelly’s formalized and branded “zero injury” program, confirming compliance with health and safety legislation while monitoring impact metrics to aim for zero on-the-job accidents, zero on-the-job injuries, and zero on-the-job illnesses.
Safety training and an employee handbook are essentials provided to new employees during orientation. Across our operations, managers, employees, and customers are accountable and responsible for understanding, leading, and upholding our commitment to our safety standards.
Our health and safety workplace commitment extends to our customers. Kelly’s Global Safety and Health Program requires our highest safety standards in customers’ workplaces. It provides pre-assignment risk assessment, worker training, and analysis of incident reports to assess customers’ commitment to safety standards.
All customers are assessed before servicing and are regularly monitored through our performance evaluation metrics and safety committees. Temporary workers receive general safety guidelines from Kelly and site-specific safety training from our customers.
*2022 BLS staffing industry average not available at time of publishing.
