Key Takeaways From The Verdantix 2025 Global Corporate EHS Survey

In August 2025, Verdantix published its latest edition of the EHS global corporate survey. This report collates details on the EHS spending, priorities and technological preferences of 304 EHS decision-makers for the coming year, across 25 countries and 24 industries. The report shows that:

• EHS spending will rise over the coming year, with some 28% of firms considering a 10% increase. However, 31% of organizations indicate that their spending levels will remain unchanged. This fixed spending projection is dominated by mature EHS markets such as Europe and North America. Businesses in these regions already have established EHS teams with software ecosystems in place. Hence, there is less need for steep investment in EHS.
• ESG and sustainability is set to receive the greatest increase in spending, despite political change and uncertainty in North America. The EU market is the major driver behind this spending pattern, which is accompanied by other sustainability-based initiatives, such as GHG monitoring and environmental compliance.
• Traditional EHS goals, such as reducing SIFs (serious injuries and fatalities) and maintaining regulatory compliance, are still vital. However, other emerging goals are also key focus areas, such as increasing the use of leading indicator metrics for proactive management and implementing programmes and technology to develop a firm-wide safety culture.
• ESG is fuelling the rollout of digital technologies, with a focus on tools that can monitor environmental compliance and individual worker wellbeing. There has also been a sharp rise in critical event management (CEM) solutions to help firms manage natural disasters and cyber-attacks.
• Although EHS software vendors are leveraging generative AI (GenAI) and predictive capabilities, automation-based use cases such as cleaning and organizing EHS data, and summarizing EHS regulation, remain the most popular amongst buyers. Many firms still believe that generative and predictive AI solutions are yet to be proven.

Moving into 2026, EHS functions are trying to balance both traditional goals, such as reducing SIFs, whilst increasing spending on areas such as ESG and sustainability, which continues to dominate expenditure, despite overall reduced responsibility. This is largely thanks to the environmental tracking and data aggregation tools to help streamline ESG reporting offered by EHS software vendors. To read more about EHS spending patterns, and technological preferences for the coming year, visit our research portal.