DCF QuickChat: EdgeConneX’s Comprehensive Approach to Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Oct. 23, 2024

In this Data Center Frontier QuickChat, Matt Vincent, Editor-in-Chief of Data Center Frontier, talks to Vicki Simmonds, Health and Safety Manager, EMEA for EdgeConneX, about creating a safer work environment and promoting employee wellbeing in the data center space. 

During the eight-minute interview, Simmonds discusses strategies for integrating health and safety standards in data center construction and operational settings. She offers tips for raising awareness through mental health first aid training and other educational initiatives. 

Simmonds also outlines the key principles of biohacking, which she describes as changing the environment around and inside you so that you can be the best version of your self. 

During the interview, Simmonds shares EdgeConneX’s holistic approach to health, safety and wellbeing, providing “outside-the-box” examples of how and why the company nurtures a culture of openness and self-care.

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