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Whether you’re looking for a new EHS technology solution or looking to update an existing one; selecting, implementing, and maximising the value of an EHS software from a crowded field of vendors is a difficult and time-consuming task. We’ve carefully curated a selection of data rich reports to help minimize risk, while giving you the ability to make the most informed decision when choosing a solution that best fits your business requirements.
Verdantix also covers a wide range of EHS technology such as EHS regulatory solutions, EHS mobile applications, permit to work software, smart PPE and wearables, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality application (VR), Product Stewardship, Contractor management, and sustainability software. If you would like to find out more about any of this research please get in touch, or continue browsing through our website and discover all our research.
Building Your EHS Tech Strategy
Verdantix research brings together feedback from your peers and best practices to create a plan and roadmap to define your overall EHS technology strategy. Specific reports to get you started:
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EHS Software Market Heading For A Big Realignment In 2020
This report provides current customers of EHS software vendors and EHS managers considering making an investment with guidance on how to make the best purchase decisions in the context of an evolving market. From 2000 onwards both financial investors and corporate groups got involved in the EHS software market without significantly impacting market dynamics. But from 2015 onwards, far bigger private equity funds move… -
Worst Practices For EH&S Software Projects
The market for EH&S software is growing at a healthy pace – and has been for some time. Verdantix forecasts growth of 11% per annum over the next five years and spend of $1.0 billion in 2017 alone. But all is not well in the world of EH&S software implementation: failed projects abound. Customers complain about vendors over-promising and not delivering; vendors moan about consultants over-customizing their software; … -
Best Practices For Incident Management
This report provides managers in operations and EHS roles with an overview of best practices for incident management. The study encompasses issues relating to processes, people, technology and data. To capture best practice insights, Verdantix undertook interviews with corporate safety and operations leaders as well as incident management experts in technology and consulting firms. Verdantix analysis finds that there… -
2019 Tech Roadmap For EHS Technologies
This Tech Roadmap report clarifies the business value, pace of innovation and maturity of 25 Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) technologies. Verdantix conducted a fact-based assessment of the maturity, innovation, future prospects and business value of each solution. EHS managers responsible for selecting technologies to support processes, systems and objectives should use this report to identify the technologies … -
Market Overview: The Evolving Universe Of EHS Mobile Apps
This report helps firms understand the current EHS mobile app landscape and helps vendors enhance their knowledge around the EHS mobile app capabilities that end-users desire. Over 10 years ago, mobile EHS applications were at the start of conceptualization as touchscreen mobile devices were newly introduced to the market. As proliferation of these devices soared and the portfolio of mobile applications grew, EHS ven… -
Market Overview: EHS & Industry 4.0
Over the last 30 years, advanced electrical devices and software have allowed for automation, tracking and management of industrial processes, leading to reduced costs, increased production and expansion of widespread supply chains. We now enter a new revolution, called Industry 4.0, which empowers how industries can operate in the new digital age. Industry 4.0 incorporates cutting edge-technologies, interconnected m…
Learning From How Your Peers Are Using Tech & Benchmarking Your Plans
A common step for EHS executives looking to identify the relevant technologies and to justify the investment is to benchmark to peer companies and learn from their experiences. Using the Verdantix research executives can compare themselves to both broad groups (from our global surveys) or to individual companies.
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Addressing COVID-19 With EHS Technology
This report is intended to help corporate decision-makers understand how they might utilize new or existing EHS technologies to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 within their firm. Various tools can help EHS managers remain in communication with their frontline workers, monitor employees’ health and follow protocols to maintain workplace safety in these unprecedented times. Further to this, other technologies can help fi… -
Market Insight: EHS Mobile Apps As A Tool To Manage COVID-19
This report is one in a series of market insight publications intended to assist EHS decision-makers in navigating the current COVID-19 pandemic using technology. With individual wellbeing, businesses and economies in a state of uncertainty, Verdantix has examined how firms can utilize existing resources to mitigate the risk and impact of the coronavirus. With EHS mobile apps seeing widespread adoption across industr… -
Global Corporate Survey 2019: EHS Budgets, Priorities & Tech Preferences
This report helps environment, health and safety (EHS) executives to benchmark their firms’ EHS budgets, investment priorities and technology use relative to their global peer group. Executives at EHS consulting and technology providers also can use the survey findings to support their strategic decision-making and business planning. Verdantix gathered this data by interviewing 403 EHS decision-makers across 35 count… -
Global Corporate Survey 2019: EHS Software Brands Recognition
This report helps strategy executives, chief marketing officers and business development directors at EHS software firms understand the strength of their brand awareness and brand preference in the eyes of 403 customers across 35 countries and 25 industries. Of the 403 senior EHS executives whom Verdantix interviewed, 79% represented firms with revenues greater than $1 billion and two-thirds held role titles at the d… -
Regional Investment Priorities For EHS Software In 2019
A deep dive into 2019 corporate EHS software investment plans across five geographic regions uncovered distinct differences. This report provides a unique dataset for EHS software vendors to understand buyers’ investment priorities across five different regions: Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Gulf States and Africa, Latin America, and North America; and nine EHS processes. Verdantix finds that compared to the global ag… -
Industry-Level Buying Criteria For EH&S Software
This report provides a unique data set for EH&S software vendors to understand the priority criteria influencing EH&S officers in large corporates to invest in one application versus another, and benchmarking these criteria across five industry groups. Verdantix analysis finds that while the same factors are top of mind for all EH&S software buyers – user-friendly and cost-conscious solutions – the way buyers priorit… -
EHS Risk Management Lessons From UCOR’s ‘Manhattan Project’ Site Remediation
This report forms one in a series focused on winners of the Verdantix EHS Innovation Awards. During World War II, most of the uranium enrichment for the production of the ‘Manhattan Project’ nuclear bombs took place at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. Put under control of the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, the US Department of Energy contracted a joint venture between URS (now AECOM) and CH…
Choosing Technology & Selecting A Vendor
Verdantix research helps corporate executives accelerate and reduce the risk when selecting a technology vendor – please find our buyers’ guides for an overview of vendors, Green Quadrants which are detailed benchmarks of the leading suppliers, and functionality benchmarks that hone in on particular functionality.
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Buyer’s Guide: Lone Worker Solutions
With an estimated 53 million lone workers across Canada, the United States and Europe, firms need to understand the risks that are tied to their lone workers and identify the most beneficial tools available to them to ensure their workers are protected. This report provides information on currently available technologies for corporate managers who are responsible for selecting, implementing and managing solutions for… -
Buyer’s Guide: Digital Health And Safety Training Solutions
In the US, a worker is injured every seven seconds, which equates to 12,900 workers per day and 4.7 million injured workers each year. Firms look to utilize health and safety training to help reduce this alarming rate of workplace injuries. This report outlines currently available technologies for corporate managers responsible for selecting, implementing and managing health and safety training platforms. This analys… -
Green Quadrant EHS Software 2019
This report provides Verdantix's fifth detailed, fact-based comparison of the most prominent EHS software vendors in the market. Based on the proprietary Verdantix Green Quadrant methodology, the analysis was based on three-hour live product demonstrations with pre-set scenarios as well as vendor responses to a 383-point questionnaire covering 10 technical capabilities, 18 functional capabilities and 11 market moment… -
EHS Software Benchmark: Incident, Audit And Risk Management
This report contains an extract of the Verdantix analysis of the incident, audit and risk management capabilities of 23 environment, health and safety (EHS) software vendors. This analysis originally was produced in the 2019 version of the Verdantix Green Quadrant for EHS software (see Verdantix Green Quadrant EHS Software 2019). To help senior EHS executives identify the best-fit software, this software benchma… -
EHS Software Benchmark: Chemicals Management
This report represents an extract of the Verdantix analysis of the chemicals management capabilities of 23 environment, health and safety (EHS) software vendors. This analysis originally was conducted as part of the recent Green Quadrant assessment process for EHS Software (see Verdantix Green Quadrant EHS Software 2019). To help senior EHS executives identify the best-fit software, this software benchmark provides a… -
EHS Software Benchmark: Sustainability Reporting
This report contains an extract of the Verdantix analysis of the sustainability reporting capabilities of 23 environment, health and safety (EHS) software vendors. This analysis originally was produced in the 2019 version of the Verdantix Green Quadrant for EHS software (see Verdantix Green Quadrant EHS Software 2019). To help senior EHS executives identify the best-fit software, this software benchmark provides a de… -
Smart Innovators: EHS Analytics In The IoT Age
This report helps corporate decision-makers at all levels within the EHS function to better understand the drivers and challenges of the market for EHS analytics while also highlighting capabilities that are available, high-growth areas in the market and a roadmap for future innovations across the technological landscape. Firms seek to improve their analytical capabilities to alleviate key resource constraints and de… -
Smart Innovators: Software For Industrial Hygiene And Occupational Health
This report provides corporate decision-makers and buyers of industrial hygiene (IH) and occupational health (OH) software with an overview of the current market—highlighting technology trends, innovations, opportunities and growth areas to anticipate. The IH and OH software landscape has transitioned from one-size-fits-all enterprise solutions to solutions that are specially developed to meet the needs of industrial…
In addition, our reports on specific vendors help you better understand their strategy, solution development and if they might be a good for your organisation:
Building The Business Case For Tech
This essential step is self-explanatory:
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The Business Case For EHS Software
The 2017 Verdantix global survey of 382 EHS decision-makers found that 87% consider information technology is either ‘essential’ or ‘valuable’ for EHS management. But only 36% of those surveyed said that they used commercial EHS software. One of the core reasons for this disparity is the difficulty heads of EHS have in securing additional funding of $200,000 to $800,000 for an EHS software project. Recogniz… -
Business Case For Product Compliance Software
Over one-third of senior EHS decision-makers interviewed by Verdantix in our 2018 global EHS leaders survey have plans to adopt software to manage ‘product compliance for chemicals and components’ across all their facilities during 2019. This report provides EHS and product compliance decision-makers with an empirical, evidence-based framework to evaluate product compliance software adoption. In order to provide real…
Getting Value From Your Technology Estate
Selecting and implementing a vendor is by no means the end of the story. Most firms only get a fraction of the possible value from the technology they have implement. So whether it’s part of long term improvement plans or for crisis response (such as Covid), Verdantix covers this topic with multiple technologies:
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Eleven Critical Actions To Take For Returning To Work Post COVID-19
After nearly six months of economic and industrial disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are beginning to return workers back into the fold and reopen businesses that have been shuttered. China has been reopening factories and easing restrictions on travel, with other countries looking to follow suit as new infections rate curves flatten. While industries and individuals may be eagerly anticipating re… -
Best Practices For EHS Software Implementation Services
This report provides corporate managers with best practice advice for implementing EHS software, particularly for firms obtaining support from a consulting provider. To capture best practices, Verdantix undertook 19 interviews with EHS, quality and IT managers and senior executives heavily involved in software implementation processes and decision-making, as well as ten heads of practices at EHS consulting firms. Ver… -
Best Practices For EHS Analytics
This report provides EHS decision-makers with advice on how to succeed with a digital analytics project. The EHS community has utilized data management and analytics techniques for decades. In the last five years the rise of Internet of Things data collection, the impact of generational changes on the use of digital technology, and the arrival of more robust EHS analytics offerings has pushed the idea of digital anal… -
Best Practices: Deploying Mobile EHS Apps
This report provides managers and buyers in corporate EHS roles with an overview of the best practice framework for deploying mobile EHS applications (apps). This study covers barriers and considerations relating to processes, people, technology and data. To capture the best practice insights, Verdantix interviewed mobile EHS app vendors and corporate EHS managers. Verdantix analysis finds that a multifaceted approac… -
Strategic Focus: Supporting Worker Mental Health And Wellbeing In The Digital Age
Worker mental health is a topic of growing focus among EHS managers and has been amplified in importance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the WHO, at any time, 450 million people around the world are suffering from a mental illness – making it one of the main causes of disability and ill-health around the globe. The importance of worker mental health and wellbeing cannot be overstated. New and emerging tech… -
New Approaches to Reducing Serious Injuries, Fatalities and High Potential Events
After more than two decades of attempts to reduce workplace fatalities, the average decrease in such events has been very low compared to the average decrease in workplace injuries. This is a major concern for EHS managers, as it shows that traditional approaches have not had a similar and significant impact on reducing workplace fatalities. This report aims to provide EHS managers with a new analysis of influencing … -
Strategic Focus: Global EHS Software Implementation
This report is one of a series in which Verdantix identifies specific topics that EHS executives should understand and for which they should start to develop strategies and align resources. This particular Verdantix study is a spin-off from the recently published report Best Practices For EHS Software Implementation Services. Verdantix finds large enterprise firms (with more than $1billion in revenue) tend to employ … -
Aligning EHS And Quality As A Strategic Focus For Firms
The mindset of many corporate EHS managers is shifting to employ a more overarching risk-based approach. What does this mean for combining EHS and quality (EHSQ) management? Firms are increasingly perceiving the alignment between EHS and quality processes and are leveraging both efficiencies and incident prevention using: 1) an organizational strategy for EHSQ management; and 2) technology that enables this strategy.… -
Strategic Focus: Incorporating Technology Into The Hierarchy Of Controls
This report provides corporate EHS managers with insight for incorporating EHS technology into the hierarchy of controls for worker safety. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that, in the US alone, there are approximately three million workplace injuries each year. Emerging EHS technology is providing firms with means of preventing injuries through hazard management. This report considers how new technology is … -
Strategic Focus: Realizing New Product Stewardship Opportunities
This report provides corporate EHS and product stewardship executives with insights for aligning governance, processes and technology to more effectively move beyond regulatory compliance foundations and realize the opportunities that product stewardship can provide. Firms are driven to focus on product stewardship efforts for a variety of reasons, ranging from regulatory compliance to brand reputation and product co…
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