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7:00 am Registration & Networking Breakfast
7:40 am Advancing Data Centers Opening Remarks
7:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks & Safety Brief
Strengthening Leadership & Workforce Resilience for Safe Delivery at Scale
8:00 am Panel: Understanding How Owner/Operator, General Contractor & Trade Contractor Leadership Models Must Evolve to Support Safe Delivery at Scale
- Defining leadership accountability across hyperscalers, colocators, neocloud providers, GCs and trade contractors to clarify how decisions, expectations and site presence influence EHS performance
- Strengthening the GC’s role as the central field coordinator to improve direction, communication and support across trade partners and high-risk work
- Embedding visible leadership and collaborative decision-making to maintain safe delivery across multiple buildings, phases and contractor teams
8:30 am We’re Not Safe. We’ve Been Lucky.
- Examining why near-miss reports may capture only a fraction of the risk during lockout/tagout (LOTO) work
- Using autoLOTO’s intervention records to identify attempted errors during execution
- Applying those findings to improve drawings, labeling and live-dead-live practices
9:00 am Managing Psychosocial Risk as a Safety Discipline on High-Pressure Data Center Builds
- Reframing psychosocial risks as workplace hazards that require the same structured identification, assessment, and management as physical safety risks
- Understanding how fatigue, burnout, and workforce churn increase serious injury and fatality (SIF) exposure on fast-paced data center construction projects
- Applying the hierarchy of controls to workload, scheduling, and work design to reduce risk at the source rather than relying solely on resilience training
- Implementing a practical 90-day pilot within one department to demonstrate measurable improvements using existing resources
9:30 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking
Building Trust, Learning & Accountability Across Project Partners
10:30 am Integrating Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) to Improve Learning & Risk Recognition
- Applying HOP principles to reveal how work is performed across construction and commissioning activities
- Using event learning methods to capture operational context, frontline insight and system-level contributors after incidents
- Embedding HOP across leadership and EHS functions to strengthen continuous improvement and psychologically safe reporting cultures
11:00 am Building Safety Culture Across Project Partners to Strengthen Trust, Engagement & Personal Accountability
- Developing stronger partner relationships to improve trust, communication and safe decision-making at the point of work
- Creating psychologically safe reporting environments to improve hazard identification and early intervention
- Using worker engagement, buddy systems and field coaching to sustain personal accountability across complex data center project environments
11:30 am Beyond First Aid: Building a Comprehensive Workforce Health Strategy for a Remote Data Center Megaproject
- Addressing the Healthcare Challenges of Remote Data Center Construction: Understand how delayed emergency response, limited access to local healthcare and behavioral health services, and a workforce living away from home create additional health and safety risks on remote megaprojects.
- Building an Integrated On-Site Workforce Health Model: Explore how Nurse Practitioners, EMTs/Paramedics, Athletic Trainers, behavioral health resources, diagnostic capabilities and community healthcare partnerships can provide comprehensive care beyond traditional occupational medicine.
- Demonstrating the Impact on Workforce Well-Being & Project Performance: Examine project outcomes and data to understand how proactive physical and behavioral healthcare, injury management and continuity of care can improve workforce well-being while reducing disruption and supporting overall project performance.
12:00 pm Networking Lunch Break
Track 1: EHS Construction & Commissioning Leadership Strategy
Track 2: EHS Execution During Construction & Commissioning
Track 1: EHS Construction & Commissioning Leadership Strategy
Reducing Execution Risk Through Earlier Planning & Stakeholder Alignment
1:00 pm Aligning Owner & Contractor Safety Expectations to Build a More Collaborative Project Culture
Vice President of HSE, Quality & Risk, Primoris Renewable Energy
- Exploring how owner safety standards are evolving as data center projects draw on renewable energy and power infrastructure contractors
- Balancing client requirements with contractor practices to identify where expectations need to be agreed early
- Building a collaborative approach to HSE that improves both compliance and day-to-day safety culture
1:30 pm Qualified on Paper, Unqualified on Site: Closing the Competency Gap When the Schedule Won’t Wait
Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Appruv
- Understanding where worker qualification breaks down on multi-employer data center sites, from sub-tier vendors no single party owns to lapsed certifications and workers assigned to high-risk tasks they aren’t qualified fo
- Addressing the five checkpoints from contract award to task execution that keep qualification on pace with hyperscale schedules instead of becoming the step that gets skipped
- Sharing lessons from more than 15 years of implementing contractor management programs, and how to build these checks into what already happens on site
1:40 pm Audience Discussion: Strengthening Community Engagement & Stakeholder Management to Reduce Permitting Delays & Opposition Across Projects
- Engaging local communities earlier to communicate construction impacts, infrastructure demands and mitigation plans before major site activity begins
- Addressing water usage, dust, noise, lighting, traffic and land disturbance concerns to reduce community opposition and permitting friction
- Strengthening community benefit strategies to improve social acceptance, local support and long-term stakeholder relationships
Track 2: EHS Execution During Construction & Commissioning
2:10 pm Afternoon Refreshment & Networking
Driving Proactive Risk Management Through Field Leadership & Trade Learning
3:00 pm Using Biomarkers to Identify Burnout Risk & Protect the Data Center Workforce
- Exploring how heat strain, workload and individual factors influence worker vulnerability to identify risks beyond environmental monitoring
- Examining how voluntary wearable technology and real-time physiological insights help workers and safety teams identify emerging risk and intervene before an incident occurs
- Translating workforce data into behavior change and leading indicators to strengthen safety, improve productivity and build a measurable business case for loss prevention