Updated 4 October 2026 — pricing checked on the vendors’ official pages. Where a vendor publishes no price, we say so rather than repeat a third-party estimate as fact. This update reflects GearTracker’s move into workforce compliance (training, certifications, medical fitness, documents to sign) and its new two-meter pricing. On 25 August 2026 we added SDS Manager, a chemical-safety platform that also carries incident, risk and audit modules.
✅ What “EHS software” covers, and what it does not
EHS — Environment, Health and Safety software is a category that stretches from a phone app for reporting a near miss to an enterprise platform running medical surveillance, chemical inventories and ESG disclosure. Buyers get burned when they compare products from opposite ends of that range on price alone.
In practice, four things are being bought under one label:
Frontline capture — inspections, audits, hazard reports and corrective actions, done on a phone by people who are not safety professionals.
Records of obligation — incident logs, injury and illness records, regulatory submissions, training and certification registers.
Risk and program management — risk assessments, permits to work, contractor management, management of change, behaviour-based safety.
Specialist domains — chemical safety and safety data sheets, industrial hygiene, occupational health, environmental and sustainability reporting.
Almost no product is strong at all four. The comparison below is built so you can weight the ones you actually need.
📋 The regulatory floor: what a US employer must record
Nothing requires you to buy EHS software. What US law requires is a specific set of records, and this is the part most translated comparisons get wrong.
Under 29 CFR Part 1904, covered employers must keep three things:
Form 300 — the log of work-related injuries and illnesses, maintained as they occur;
Form 300A — the annual summary, which must be posted from 1 February to 30 April of the following year, in a conspicuous place, signed by a company executive;
Form 301 — the individual incident report, completed within seven calendar days of learning that a recordable case occurred.
Records must be retained for five years following the calendar year they cover. Establishments above certain size and industry thresholds must also submit their data electronically to OSHA each year through the Injury Tracking Application, by 2 March.
Two things follow for a software buyer. First, “EHS software” and “OSHA recordkeeping system of record” are not the same claim — plenty of excellent inspection apps are not designed to produce a defensible 300 log. Ask to see the 300, 300A and 301 outputs, and the electronic submission file, during the demo. Second, if you operate outside the US, the equivalent obligations differ in kind, not just in form: the UK’s RIDDOR requires certain incidents to be reported to the regulator rather than merely logged, and most EU member states require a documented risk assessment that has no direct US equivalent. ISO 45001 is the common denominator many multinationals standardize on, but it is a voluntary management-system standard, not a legal requirement anywhere.
🏆 The interactive ranking
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10 solutions ranked against your priorities — the per-criterion scores are explained in the methodology at the bottom of the page.
The only product in this panel a crew will adopt without being told to. It started as a mobile inspection app and still shows it: templates, photos, offline capture and issue reporting are excellent, and the free tier covers a team of ten. It is a frontline operations platform more than a compliance system of record.
EHS coverage
7.0
Usability & adoption
9.5
Price & transparency
8.5
Mobile & field capture
9.5
Regulatory reporting
5.5
Analytics & reporting
6.5
Rollout & support
9.0
Strengths
✅ Free plan for up to 10 users — the only genuinely usable free tier in the EHS panel
✅ Published price: $24 per seat per month billed annually, which almost no EHS vendor does
✅ The strongest mobile capture experience of the panel, offline included
Weaknesses
⚠️ Not built as an OSHA recordkeeping system of record: 300/300A/301 logs are not its native model
⚠️ Report customization and structured dashboards are the recurring complaint
⚠️ Per-seat pricing gets expensive for a large frontline population; site-based pricing exists only on Enterprise
⚠️ AI credits are metered per seat per month, which is a cost line most buyers overlook
Pricing
Free for up to 10 users (5 active templates); Premium $24/seat/month billed annually ($29 monthly); Enterprise on quote
Free ≤ 100 items and 10 tracked people, then $0.99/item/year and $1.16/person/month
✅
🇫🇷 France
SDS Manager
Chemical safety plus incident, risk and audit modules
SDS: free ≤ 200, then $19–$59/mo for 100 — EHS: $9.99/employee/mo
✅ 30 days
🇳🇴 Norway
1. Mitti, formerly SafetyCulture — the one the crews will actually use
Overview
Mitti — renamed from SafetyCulture on 11 August 2026, with safetyculture.com now redirecting to mitti.com — began as a mobile inspection app and still shows it, in the best sense: templates, photos, offline capture and issue reporting are the strongest in this panel.
It is also the only enterprise-adjacent EHS product that publishes a price: free for up to 10 users with five active templates, then $24 per seat per month billed annually ($29 monthly), then Enterprise on quote. Site-based pricing — which matters enormously once every frontline worker needs access — exists only at Enterprise.
Strengths
🆓 A genuinely usable free tier: up to 10 users with five active templates — one of three free plans in the EHS panel, with GearTracker and SDS Manager.
💶 Published pricing, $24 per seat per month billed annually, which almost no EHS vendor does.
📱 The best field capture experience of the panel, offline included, learned in minutes.
🧩 A template model that adapts to any process without vendor involvement.
Weaknesses
📋 Not an OSHA recordkeeping system of record: the 300/300A/301 chain is not its native model. Verify it explicitly if US recordkeeping is your driver.
📊 Report customization and structured dashboards are its recurring complaint.
💵 Per-seat pricing gets expensive across a large frontline population; site-based pricing exists only on Enterprise.
🤖 AI credits are metered per seat per month — a cost line buyers routinely miss when modelling total cost.
Who it suits? Organizations whose first problem is that nothing gets reported at all.
2. VelocityEHS — when chemicals are the problem
Overview
VelocityEHS is the deepest chemical management product in the comparison: safety data sheet libraries, GHS label printing, exposure assessment and industrial hygiene, plus the Humantech ergonomics module, which has no real equivalent among the others. Its install base skews enterprise, with chemicals the leading vertical.
Strengths
🧪 The best chemical management of the panel: SDS libraries, GHS label printing, exposure assessment.
🦿 Humantech ergonomics is a distinct capability, not a checkbox — nothing else here has an equivalent.
📈 Enterprise-grade risk analysis and industrial hygiene modules.
🏭 Used predominantly by enterprises, with chemicals the leading vertical.
Weaknesses
💸 No published pricing of any kind.
📚 A noticeable learning curve for new users is the most repeated criticism.
🔍 Reporting search and customization are described as limited relative to the volume of data held.
Who it suits? Manufacturers, laboratories and process industries where hazardous substances, not incidents, drive the compliance workload.
3. Cority — the occupational health lineage
Overview
Cority is the strongest product here for organizations with an in-house medical function: clinical case management, medical surveillance and industrial hygiene sit alongside the usual incident, audit and action modules, on one platform that also covers quality and ESG reporting.
Strengths
🩺 Occupational health as a first-class capability: clinical case management and medical surveillance, not an add-on.
🧬 Industrial hygiene alongside the usual incident, audit and action modules.
🌍 One platform across EHS, quality, sustainability and ESG reporting.
🏢 Credible at enterprise scale and across multiple jurisdictions.
Weaknesses
💸 No published pricing.
🛠️ Configuration-heavy: reaching value is a project, not a signup.
📏 Substantially oversized for a single-site employer with one safety manager.
Who it suits? Large employers with occupational health obligations — mining, heavy industry, healthcare, energy.
4. Intelex — breadth, at the cost of configuration
Overview
Intelex covers incidents and investigations, audits, corrective actions, risk, regulatory reporting, training and quality, with workflows configurable to an existing management system. The vendor publishes no detailed grid, so the product is marked as not publicly priced.
Strengths
🧰 A very wide module catalogue spanning EHS, quality and compliance.
⚙️ Genuinely configurable workflows, matchable to an existing management system.
🏢 An established mid-market and enterprise base across several jurisdictions.
👁️ A per-user figure is at least publicly visible, which is more than most of this panel offers.
Weaknesses
🛠️ Substantial configuration effort, which needs a budget line of its own.
💸 No published price list at all — every figure in circulation is third-party and indicative.
📱 Mobile is not the reason anyone buys this.
Who it suits? Organizations that already run a formal management system and want the software to match it, rather than the other way around.
5. EcoOnline — the European counterweight
Overview
EcoOnline builds its chemical safety around REACH and CLP rather than OSHA HazCom, and adds a lone-worker protection product few competitors offer at all.
Strengths
🧪 Chemical management built for the European frame (REACH, CLP), not adapted from OSHA HazCom.
🚶 Lone worker protection is a genuine differentiator — few competitors offer it at all.
🇪🇺 A European vendor, which shortens the data-residency conversation for EU and UK procurement.
Weaknesses
💸 No published pricing.
📋 OSHA recordkeeping is not its native frame: verify 300/300A/301 support explicitly if you have US sites.
🧩 A portfolio assembled partly through acquisition — ask which modules share one data model and which are integrated products.
Who it suits? European employers, and multinationals whose centre of gravity is the EU or the UK rather than North America.
6. EHS Insight — the only enterprise-style platform that publishes a number
Overview
EHS Insight starts at $4,600 per year for its small and mid-sized business offer and provides a 30-day free trial — both rare in this category. Pricing by organization rather than per seat suits an employer that wants every supervisor reporting without counting licences. Oil and gas and construction are its core verticals.
Strengths
💶 A published entry figure — $4,600/year — and a real 30-day trial. Almost unheard of in this category.
👥 Organization-level rather than per-seat pricing, which favours wide frontline rollout.
📱 Mobile app and real-time incident tracking are the most praised features.
🛢️ A strong fit for oil and gas and construction, its two dominant verticals.
Weaknesses
🧾 $4,600 is an entry point, not a price list: the full grid is still quote-based.
📊 Dashboard complexity and customization limits are the recurring criticisms.
🩺 Less depth than Cority or VelocityEHS on occupational health and chemical management.
Who it suits? Mid-sized employers who want to evaluate seriously before entering a sales process.
7. SiteDocs — the narrowest, and the best at what it does
Overview
SiteDocs is the most deliberately narrow product in this comparison, and the most convincing within that scope. It replaces the paper safety binder on a construction site: forms, signatures, worker certifications and inspections, on a phone, offline.
Strengths
🏗️ Purpose-built for construction and trades, not adapted to them.
🎓 Worker certification tracking tied to site access is a real differentiator.
📴 Offline-first: it works where the crews actually are.
Weaknesses
💸 No published pricing.
🧪 Narrow scope: no chemical management, no industrial hygiene, no ESG reporting.
🌍 Not a fit for a multinational needing consolidated indicators across jurisdictions.
🇨🇦 Strongly oriented to North American construction practice.
Who it suits? Contractors currently running safety on paper, who want that fixed this quarter.
8. Evotix — the gap between frontline apps and enterprise platforms
Overview
Evotix is a mobile-first, configurable EHS platform aimed at organizations that want frontline reporting to actually happen, with a lighter implementation than Cority or Intelex. Ease of use and support are its strongest points.
It is included because its positioning fills a real gap between the frontline apps and the enterprise platforms.
Strengths
📱 Mobile-first by design: reporting an event and completing training from a phone are the primary paths.
⚙️ Configurable without the enterprise project weight of Cority or Intelex.
🛟 Responsive support and a cost-effective package for its scope.
🇬🇧 A UK vendor, useful where RIDDOR reporting and UK data residency matter.
Weaknesses
💸 No published pricing.
🎨 Front-end polish and template customization are limited.
🧰 A smaller module catalogue than the enterprise vendors it competes with.
Who it suits? Mid-sized organizations that want frontline reporting without an enterprise implementation project.
9. GearTracker — equipment and the people who use it
Overview
GearTracker is not a general EHS platform, and it is included here for a specific reason: it goes deeper than the platforms above on equipment compliance, and now covers the workforce side of frontline compliance too. On the equipment side: PPE, lifting gear, extinguishers and tools, with inspections, due-date alerts, NFC/barcode scanning, named assignment and repairs. On the people side: training, certifications (forklift, electrical, work at height…) with renewal alerts 30 days ahead, medical fitness, signed PPE issue records, and risk assessments, procedures or safety data sheets pushed to crews with proof of reading. Incidents are recorded against a person or an item, photos included; an item involved is taken out of service until someone decides to repair or scrap it. All of it rolls up into one compliance status per person.
Pricing runs on two independent meters. Equipment stays per item — free up to 100, then $0.99 per item per year. HSE tracking is free for 10 people, then $1.16 per person per month on annual billing ($1.28 monthly), and a person only counts once they have a training, certification, medical visit or document to sign; issuing them equipment or an account never counts. Users are unlimited on every plan, and every feature is on the free plan.
Strengths
🆓 Free up to 100 items and 10 tracked people, every feature included, with unlimited users on every plan.
💶 Published, usage-based pricing on both meters, so involving the whole workforce costs nothing extra.
👤 One compliance status per person, built from training, certifications, medical fitness, signed PPE issue and read receipts — with the fitness outcome and restrictions recorded, never the medical reason.
🤖 A built-in AI assistant that answers plain-language questions and imports your existing spreadsheet on its own, alongside an API and MCP.
🌍 Deployed across several countries with a multilingual interface.
Weaknesses
🚫 Not a full EHS platform: no OSHA 300/300A/301 recordkeeping or RIDDOR reporting, and risk assessments are distributed, not authored, in the tool.
🔧 Incidents are recorded, but without the platform machinery: no root-cause analysis, no cross-site corrective-action plans.
📊 Evidence-oriented reporting (PDF reports, compliance statuses) rather than analytics dashboards.
🧪 No regulatory content service and no chemical management: safety data sheets can be pushed to crews, but there is no SDS library or inventory.
Who it suits? Organizations whose compliance gap is PPE, equipment and the certifications of the people using them — alongside, not instead of, an EHS platform. See our equipment inspection software guide.
10. SDS Manager — chemical safety that grew an EHS platform
Overview
SDS Manager (SDS Manager AS, Oslo) is badly served by its own name. The library claims 17 million safety data sheets in 40 languages, with automated monitoring of supplier sites for revisions and structured extraction of all 16 sections — but on top of it sit a multi-site chemical inventory, job hazard analysis (COSHH reports in the UK) with employee read receipts, ingredient concentrations checked against workplace exposure limits, restricted-substance alerts, a substitution tool, and archiving for historical exposure analysis.
Then, as a separate subscription, three full EHS modules: incidents (offline mobile capture, anonymous reporting, root-cause analysis, CAPA), risk (configurable matrix, live heat map, residual risk, a register that updates itself) and audit & inspection (recurring calendar, risk-based scheduling, offline checklists, auto-triggered corrective actions). Aligned to ISO 45001 and ISO 14001, with Active Directory SSO and ERP export.
Read the pricing carefully: these are two subscriptions. On the SDS side, cost tracks library size and users are unlimited. The EHS modules are priced per employee — at 200 employees and 1,000 sheets, that is $172/month one side, $1,998/month the other.
Strengths
🧩 A real EHS platform, not a bolt-on: incidents with root-cause analysis and CAPA, a mapped risk register, scheduled audits with offline checklists — three modules documented page by page.
📚 The largest SDS database here: a claimed 17 million sheets, 40 languages, automated revision monitoring across supplier sites.
🧪 Deeper on chemicals than the generalists: job hazard analysis with read receipts, exposure-limit comparison, restricted-substance alerts, substitution, exposure archiving.
👥 Unlimited users on the SDS side, so the whole workforce can scan QR posters at no extra cost.
🔐 Certified to ISO 9001, 27001, 27017 and 27018 with viewable certificates — and testable without a sales call.
Weaknesses
📋 The US records chain is absent: nothing on the vendor’s pages covers OSHA forms 300, 300A and 301 or electronic submission, which VelocityEHS, Cority, Intelex and EHS Insight all model natively.
📚 No regulatory content service, no occupational health, no contractor management — three of the things enterprise platforms charge for.
💵 Published pricing hides a stack: SDS and EHS are separate subscriptions, and the per-employee one dominates the total quickly.
🔒 The free tier is an entry point, not a demonstration: 200 SDSs, one admin user and one location per the vendor’s published comparison. Only the 30-day trial opens the full platform.
🇳🇴 A small vendor for an enterprise rollout: 11–50 employees self-reported, no US entity, support handled remotely.
Who it suits? Organizations where chemicals drive the safety program and who want incidents, risk and audits built on that same base. Keep OSHA recordkeeping and regulatory content on someone else’s bill — and treat it as the answer when VelocityEHS is too big and too quiet about price.
Usability & adoption — whether an untrained supervisor files the report instead of emailing a photo.
Price & transparency — price level, trial, and how much of the total is knowable before a sales call.
Mobile & field capture — offline capture, photos, QR codes, inspections done where the work is.
Regulatory reporting — OSHA 300/300A/301 and electronic submission, RIDDOR, ISO 45001 evidence, regulatory content updates.
Analytics & reporting — leading and lagging indicators, dashboards, multi-site consolidation, ESG.
Rollout & support — configuration effort, data migration, training, support across your time zones.
How the scores were built. Feature presence was verified on the official product pages. We then penalized the absence of published pricing, features available only as paid options, and plan limits that make the entry tier unusable in practice. We use no online review ratings at all: a review count measures how long a vendor has been selling far more than how good its product is, and it penalizes recent tools — several of which now beat vendors established for twenty years.
The per-criterion scores are an editorial judgement: no public standard turns a feature list into a number out of ten. They are shown and re-weightable so you can disagree with our ordering using your own priorities.
🧪 How to evaluate an EHS platform without being sold to
Bring your own incident. Take a real recordable case from last year and ask the vendor to enter it live, produce the 300 log line, the 301 form and the electronic submission file. Watch how many clicks it takes.
Test the worst reporter you have. Hand the phone to someone who has never used the product and ask them to report a near miss. If it takes more than ninety seconds, it will not happen on site.
Ask what the regulatory content service actually covers. “Regulatory updates” can mean a curated feed for three jurisdictions or a global obligations register. The difference is a five-figure line item.
Model the seat count honestly. Per-seat pricing is fine for a safety department and ruinous across three thousand frontline workers. Ask for site-based or organization-based pricing early.
Check the exit. Incident records have five-year retention obligations in the US. Require full export including attachments, in a documented format, in the contract.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Is EHS software required by law?
No. The records are required; the software is not. OSHA requires forms 300, 300A and 301, their retention for five years, and electronic submission for establishments above certain thresholds. Software is a way to produce those records reliably.
What is the difference between EHS and safety management software?
Nothing consistent. Vendors use “EHS”, “HSE”, “EHSQ” and “safety management” interchangeably. What matters is which of the four scopes above the product actually covers — frontline capture, records of obligation, program management, or specialist domains.
Is there a free EHS platform?
Mitti’s free tier covers up to 10 users and five active templates, which is real but small. EHS Insight offers a 30-day trial. GearTracker is free up to 100 items and 10 tracked people, with unlimited users and every feature, but covers only equipment and workforce compliance — not incident investigation or OSHA recordkeeping. SDS Manager is free up to 200 safety data sheets, though the free tier is capped at one admin user and one location. Everything else in this comparison is quote-based.
Do I need ISO 45001 certification?
No. ISO 45001 is a voluntary management-system standard, not a legal requirement in any jurisdiction. Customers and insurers sometimes require it contractually. Most of the platforms here can produce the evidence an ISO 45001 audit asks for; none of them make you certified.
Which one handles OSHA recordkeeping best?
Among this panel, the enterprise platforms — VelocityEHS, Cority, Intelex and EHS Insight — treat the 300/300A/301 chain as a native model. Mitti, SiteDocs and Evotix are stronger at capture than at producing a defensible log. Ask for a live demonstration on your own case rather than trusting a feature matrix.
🚀 Conclusion
If nothing currently gets reported, start with Mitti: it is the cheapest way to change that, it publishes its price, and the free tier lets you prove the point before spending anything. If you are a contractor still running safety on paper, SiteDocs is the more focused answer.
If your compliance workload is driven by chemicals, VelocityEHS in North America and EcoOnline in Europe are the two serious answers at enterprise scale — and SDS Manager is the one that will tell you the price before the call — and it now carries incident, risk and audit modules on the same base, so it is a narrower platform rather than a single-purpose tool. Keep OSHA recordkeeping on someone else’s bill. If it is driven by occupational health, Cority has no real rival here. If you want an enterprise-style platform you can evaluate before entering a sales cycle, EHS Insight is the only one that lets you.
And if the gap you actually have is equipment and workforce compliance — PPE, certifications, medical fitness, documents your crews must sign — do not buy an EHS platform to close it: that is a different product, and GearTracker is a cheaper and more precise answer alongside whichever platform you choose.
Use the interactive comparison with your own weightings, then make the two finalists process one of your real incidents end to end.