Celebrating Western Grater’s Commitment to EDIA

We proudly announce that the Canadian Regional Council of Carpenters has awarded Western Grater Contracting the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility National Award of Excellence. This prestigious honour highlights Western Grater’s dedication to creating an inclusive workplace and supporting diversity in the construction industry.

Key Highlights:

• Commitment to Diversity: Significant investments in Indigenous employees, efforts to increase the representation of women, and accommodating schedules for single parents.
• Inclusive Recruitment: Focused efforts to diversify among all cultures and backgrounds.
• Advocacy and Success: Actively promoting diversity as a driver of both moral and business success.

Here is the full write-up from the CRCC publication

Western Grater was formed in 1982 and has proudly served the Vancouver Island and BC Coast Construction Market for over 40 years. They specialize in delivering innovative solutions to technically challenging excavation and construction projects within their typical work scopes of Drilling, Blasting, Shoring, Anchoring and Shotcrete installations. 

Western Grater Contracting has steadily been creating a culture where everyone is celebrated in their company, with the firm intent of attracting diversity. They have invested in Indigenous employees at Western Grater for training and supporting them in advancing in the company, engaged the local construction association and industry as a whole to increase the representation of women, and specifically worked to accommodate single parents schedule with child care responsibilities. They have also focused on recruitment efforts to diversify among all cultures and backgrounds, and steadily increase their diversity to be more representative of their local community. They strive to treat each employee as an individual while celebrating everyone’s unique background to ensure a welcoming environment for all.

Western Grater has also been very vocal about their support for diversity when outside their organization and has diligently worked to promote their experienced positive results. They aren’t shy to promote that diversity is not only the right moral business objective, but that it has also allowed them to meet their profitability and market objectives as well. Western Grater continues to advocate in public and private conversations that diversity is the key to their long term business success and viability.

Join us in congratulating Western Grater Contracting on this remarkable achievement!