The Risk Communication Series - Episode 1 - Safety

Helen Davitt - Digital Reality

Helen is the EMEA H&S Operations Director for Digital Realty; a global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. Digital Realty operate a vast network of data centers across the globe, enabling customers to deploy and manage their IT infrastructure. Prior to Digital Realty, Helen previously held global roles at Barclays and Vodafone in health, safety, security, and wellbeing;  managing risk across diverse and fast paced environments such as retail, financial services, media, manufacturing, property and war zones. All of which present different risk profiles, insights and experiences which helped shaped her approach to risk management and health and safety; keep it simple, frictionless and ensure risk management and controls are appropriate and remain people centric.

Marie-Louise Chandler - QinetiQ

Karen J. Hewitt is Director of Leaderlike Ltd. and has spent the last twelve years creating leadership movements for health and safety, both within large organisations and outside of them.  Combining transformational leadership with change communications, she breathes new life into traditional health, safety and wellbeing thinking and believes that transformational health and safety starts with leading, and communicating, in away that breaks with the status quo. Her second book “People Power – Transform your Business in the Era of Safety and Wellbeing,” published in 2021, has won several awards and been an Amazon no. 1 bestseller multiple times.  Most recently, she demonstrates what ‘communicating differently’ on health and safety looks like, in her 2023 TEDx talk, entitled ‘The Two Questions That Could Save Your Life