Company: CRL
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001100682-25-000011
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Company: CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 27
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 to skill building and career advancement for all. We conduct regular talent reviews to identify and develop global leadership and key talent pipelines to deliver on short-term and long-term business strategy. 

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CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.

We are also committed to cultivating a welcoming environment where every employee can succeed and thrive. We believe in treating our employees and prospective talent with fairness, dignity, decency, and respect. We recognize that our differences contribute to a more innovative workforce and are a strength for our business. It is critical that our people feel valued, supported, and that we provide opportunities for all. 

Our engagement surveys are in the form of frequent, shorter “Pulse” surveys. These Pulse surveys were issued twice during 2024 and serve as a foundation for more meaningful conversations and actions between our people and people leaders to continue making Charles River a best place to work, learn, and grow.

In addition to growth and learning opportunities, we strive to attract, motivate, and retain top talent by providing competitive compensation programs while rewarding outcomes and behaviors that align with our performance, culture, and values. We perform pay equity audits in countries where they are legally required. Our global job architecture generally allows for aligning pay by job role with market rates and serves as a career path tool to support advancement. Additionally, we assess pay on a global scale to ensure we continue to be competitive in the marketplace. 

Health and Safety

We are committed to creating a healthy and safe workplace for our employees and visitors to our facilities. This commitment is outlined in our Global Policy on Safety & Sustainability where we define the company’s approach to embedding safety and sustainably into our company’s purpose. Our EHS&S Global Operating Framework (GOF) is the foundation of our management system approach to incorporating health and safety into our business practices. These programs are supported by site health and safety leaders who engage employees and management to reinforce the importance of ownership of the programs and integration of these practices into our work each day. In 2022 we launched a Safety-First Culture initiative to reinforce that every person working for and on behalf of Charles River recognizes the importance of working safely as their first directive. The underpinning of this initiative was delivering safety culture training to all levels of leadership across the organization. As of 2024, we have conducted safety culture training and workshops to the executive leadership team, site general managers and all people leaders. In 2023 we initiated a formal Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability Assessment program conducting 17 site assessments