Health At the core of our dedication to our team members and partners across our and Safety operations is a steadfast commitment to the health and safety of everyone who enters a Digital Edge facility. INTRODUCTION We emphasize transparent incident reporting and drive a • Prevention of serious and potentially serious incidents. we consistently surpass these goals every operational year 5 and remain steadfast in our commitment to ensure the lowest High-Risk Activities Program to ensure a workplace free of • A learning organization with growth mindset to realize possible TRIR. As we continue to integrate health and safety RESPECT FOR severe injury, illnesses and fatalities. Our commitment is to our shared vision for zero harm. measures into construction and operations processes, we focus achieve zero incidents through an ongoing focus on consistent RESOURCES on three critical areas: (a) Design for Safety, (b) Construction communication, robust change management, adherence to Through these strategic outcomes, we underscore our Safety and (c) Operation and Critical Environment Safety. RESPECT health and safety protocols, e昀昀ective training to our employees, FOR PEOPLE AND commitment to fostering a robust EHS culture, sound prevention visitors and contractors, and fostering a safety-oriented culture COMMUNITIES measures and seamless integration across the entire business. within the workplace. ISO CERTIFICATIONS RESPECT FOR Health and Safety Progress and Goals In 2023 we had no serious injuries or fatalities across the We continue our e昀昀orts to certify all Digital Edge construction and operations of our data centers, and our group TRANSPARENCY Digital Edge embraces a comprehensive Environment, Health total recordable incident rate (TRIR) continued to be low at sites in ISO 45001 standards for health and safety and and Safety (EHS) Policy throughout our management systems, ISO 14001 standards for environmental management. 0.33 globally. We achieved zero incidents to full-time employees outlining our dedication to safeguarding the well-being of our APPENDIX We are proud that all 13 operational sites received and in operational data centers. We continue to steer employees and contractors. This Policy establishes three certi昀椀cation in April 2023. Additionally, asserting our contractors to higher EHS performance. Our TRIR during strategic outcomes for health and safety: construction of our data centers is 0.46, signi昀椀cantly less commitment to go above and beyond in health and safety, all our sites in development phase are certi昀椀ed • A progressive & pervasive EHS culture, where EHS is woven than the latest US OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. into daily a昀昀airs of the business. Administration) TRIR of 2.5 for the industry. At Digital Edge, Health and Safety Performance Categories 2021 2022 2023 TRIR SIF TRIR SIF TRIR SIF Digital Edge 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 Employees Construction 0.89 0 0.11 0 0.46 0 Operations 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 Total 0.50 0 0.10 0 0.33 0 TRIR = Total Recordable Incident Rate SIF = Serious Injury & Fatality Cases © 2024 Digital Edge ESG Report Image courtesy of CKB Integrated Logistics Services. 5 21 Digital Edge de昀椀nes High Risk Activity (HRA) as an activity that has high potential to result in a workplace health and safety Serious Incident or Fatality (SIF) if not adequately controlled.
