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When Risk Gets Lost in Translation: Standardizing Risk Assessment Across Multilingual Workforces
For EHS and Operational Risk leaders, standardizing risk assessment processes is only half the battle. The greater challenge is ensuring those processes are applied consistently across every facility, every team, and every worker for a standardized view of risk. Without this consistency, it becomes difficult to compare risk across sites, identify trends, share best practices, […]
QR Codes for Incident Management: Expanding Safety Reporting for All.
How QR Codes for Incident Management Expand Access, Increase Visibility, and Empower Organizations to Act Faster Across virtually every industry, frontline employees, contractors, and temporary workers are elevated risk for occupational injury and illness, yet they are often the least connected to incident reporting systems. For example, a contractor notices a hazard, but they don’t […]
The Problem of Incident Underreporting and How to fix it
A Key Source of Incident Underreporting Is Accessibility of Reporting Systems. Safety programs rely on data to inform sound decisions and make tough calls. But what happens when that data is incomplete? Or isn’t captured at all? For many organizations, one of the biggest challenges to effective incident management is getting a full and accurate […]
The Low Cost of a Safe Day: Rethinking EHS Costs/Benefit Analysis in an Era of Transition
by Phil Molé, MPH Respondents in our surveys report that EHS is becoming more strategic in their organization, more connected to risk management, operational performance, and even business continuity. But interestingly, as that shift happens, some safety professionals have become uncomfortable talking about mundane things like costs, almost as though putting a financial lens on […]
You Don’t Need to Be an Expert to Use JSAs Like One
By Phil Molé, MPH Most EHS professionals have heard of job safety analysis (JSA) and know that they’re important tools for preventing injuries. Even so, many EHS pros also report uncertainty about the quality of their JSAs, citing gaps in information within the JSAs and limited actual use of the JSAs for managing safety. […]
Navigating AI in EHS: Introducing the VelocityEHS AI Glossary & Learning Hub
AI is steadily becoming an essential tool for EHS professionals who are under increasing pressure to improve safety performance, enhance accuracy and efficiency of EHS tasks, and support more data-driven decisions. If you’re curious about AI but feel a little overwhelmed by all the technical jargon, often conflicting information, or half-baked promises of what AI […]
AI and EHS Use Cases: Incident Management
By Phil Molé, MPH Welcome to the latest installment in our AI and EHS blog series! Here’s a recap of what we’ve covered so far: Post one— we provided a general overview of the topic, introducing it to EHS pros curious to learn more about the ways AI can support their life’s work of keeping […]
2025 is Almost Over – Are Your OSHA Logs in Order?
By Phil Molé, MPH As we move closer to a new year, one of the most important compliance tasks for employers is quickly approaching: OSHA’s annual injury and illness recordkeeping deadlines. Whether you manage safety data directly or oversee HR and compliance operations, now is the time to make sure your team is ready. In […]
AI and EHS Use Cases: Job Safety Analysis
By Phil Molé, MPH Welcome to the latest installment in our AI and EHS blog series! Here’s a recap of what we’ve covered so far: Post one — we provided a general overview of the topic, introducing it to EHS pros curious to learn more about the ways AI can support their life’s work of keeping […]
We Surveyed EHS Professionals About AI. Here’s What They Said
By Phil Molé, MPH What do EHS professionals think about AI? We wanted to find out, so we conducted a survey of your peers in EHS management to find out not only what their current attitudes about AI are, but whether and how they’re using it in their daily EHS management tasks. In what follows, […]