Heather Brinkerhoff
Director of EHS Corscale Data Centers
Heather Brinkerhoff is a distinguished professional in environmental, health and safety, program development, implementation, and compliance. She has a well-versed career spanning over 20 years, with experience as an air quality state regulator in both California and Virginia, industry specific experience in hyperscale data centers and multiple power generating stations, as well as over a decade spent in the EHS consulting space. She is an accredited Certified Safety Professional and holds certifications in RCRA hazardous waste, DOT hazardous materials, AHERA asbestos, and OSHA 30-hour.
Seminars
Wednesday 8th July 2026
Workshop A: Attracting, Hiring, & Retaining EHS Operations Professionals to Meet Complex Demands of Live Data Center Environments
10:30 am
- Recruiting beyond traditional data center and mission critical backgrounds to expand the EHS talent pool
- Establishing partnerships with educational institutions and unions to build a skilled talent pipeline
- Assessing live data center scale, operational complexity, and risk profile to determine the appropriate ratio of EHS professionals to operations staff
Thursday 9th July 2026
Panel: Integrating Top-Down Leadership with Bottom-Up Engagement to Achieve Buy-In Across All Levels
9:20 am
- Aligning executive and operational perspectives by translating high-level safety data into actionable insights for site teams and vice versa
- Engaging frontline employees in identifying risks and developing solutions to ensure practical, context-driven safety initiatives
- Equipping EHS professionals with strategies to communicate cost-benefit and safety value to leadership for informed decision-making
- Fostering ongoing dialogue between management and operations to create a feedback loop that reinforces accountability, visibility, and shared ownership of safety outcomes
