Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By Phil Molé, MPH  AI is everywhere. But for EHS professionals, one question matters more than any other: Can AI help us make work safer? Generic AI tools can summarize documents or generate content. But protecting workers requires something different. It requires AI that understands how EHS teams work, the decisions they make, and the […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Job Safety Analysis (JSAs) has been a cornerstone of workplace safety for decades. JSAs help organizations identify hazards, evaluate risks, and establish controls before work begins. But not all JSAs are equally effective. Many organizations still rely on paper forms, Word documents, spreadsheets, or PDFs to manage their JSAs. While these […]

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how organizations identify risk, improve decision making, and protect their people. According to the 2026 EHS 360 Benchmark Report, 44% of EHS professionals identify AI as the biggest transformative force in EHS today and 70% trust AI-generated insights to inform EHS decisions. But meaningful innovation isn’t measured by new features and […]

By Phil Molé, MPH In Part One of our blog series on agentic AI, we introduced the concept of AI agents and discussed some of the things they can do. The goal now is to discuss what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. In what follows, you’ll learn why AI agents are not […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Most organizations don’t struggle to collect safety data. They struggle to use it to prevent incidents. Every day, safety teams capture incident reports, investigate near misses, document corrective actions, and complete risk assessments. Yet too often, these activities happen in parallel rather than together. Incident management looks at what went wrong. […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Welcome to the third and final part of our blog series on EHS in Transition, based on the 2026 EHS 360 Benchmark Report. In Part 1 of this series, we explored the promises (and pain points) that EHS professionals are facing during this era. You learned that EHS professionals are optimistic […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Welcome to Part 2, highlighting EHS in an era of transition and featuring findings from the 2026 EHS 360 Benchmark Report. In Part 1 of this series, you learned that EHS professionals are increasingly optimistic about the future of EHS within their organizations. At the same time, they’re facing rising stress […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) has entered a period of transition. For years, EHS was often viewed primarily as a compliance-driven function focused on inspections, audits, and keeping organizations aligned with regulatory requirements. Today, that role is evolving rapidly, and expectations are changing along with them. Organizations increasingly expect EHS teams […]

In Part 2 of the AI Hands & Wrists Assessment blog series, we addressed a difficult truth: hand and wrist musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) place a debilitating burden on businesses and workers alike. Yet, they are predictable, measurable, and preventable. Variability, subjectivity, and the lack of standardization and scalability in hand and wrist MSD risk assessment […]

By Phil Molé, MPH Safety teams are being asked to do something very difficult: Move faster, but don’t make mistakes. In many ways, as EHS professionals know all too well, this is nothing new. EHS professionals have long reported they need to do a lot with a little and to work efficiently while delivering results, […]