Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)
Manage safety incidents, track environmental and workplace risks, and enforce compliance — with structured workflows and real-time visibility across operations.
Product Overview
Manage Environmental, Health, and Safety Programs Across the Organization
SmartSuite’s Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) solution provides one system to manage safety incidents, environmental risks, and regulatory compliance across facilities and operations. It enables organizations to move from manual tracking and disconnected systems to a workflow-driven EHS platform.
Organizations can manage:
- Workplace incidents and safety events
- Environmental risks and compliance requirements
- Inspections, audits, and corrective actions
- Safety programs and policy adherence
- Regulatory reporting and documentation
With a centralized system of record, EHS, operations, and compliance teams gain full visibility into safety performance, risk exposure, and compliance status.
Incidents are tracked, corrective actions are completed, and compliance obligations are met, with status visible as work progresses.
As part of SmartSuite’s connected platform, Environmental Health & Safety integrates directly with:
- ESG & Sustainability Management for environmental reporting
- Operational Resilience for incident response and continuity planning
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for hazard and risk tracking
- Facilities & Maintenance Management for operational coordination
- Vendor & Supplier Management for contractor safety compliance
EHS then runs inside the risk and operations system rather than beside it.
Together, these give safety teams an EHS platform that is:
- Consistent and compliance-driven
- Operationally integrated
- Transparent across teams and locations
What is Environmental Health & Safety (EHS)?
Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is the process of managing workplace safety, environmental risks, and regulatory compliance. It ensures that organizations protect employees, maintain safe operations, and meet environmental and safety requirements.
Core Capabilities
SmartSuite’s Environmental Health & Safety product provides the capabilities required to manage safety, compliance, and environmental risk across the organization.
Incident & Safety Event Management
Capture and track workplace incidents and safety events.
Hazard & Risk Tracking
Identify and manage environmental and workplace risks.
Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Track remediation actions and follow-ups.
Inspections & Audits Management
Plan and manage safety inspections and audits.
Compliance Tracking & Reporting
Track regulatory requirements and reporting obligations.
Safety Program & Policy Management
Manage safety procedures and compliance with policies.
Workflow Automation & Notifications
Automate incident handling and corrective actions.
Dashboards & Safety Analytics
Monitor safety performance and trends.
Audit Trails & Documentation
Maintain records for compliance and reporting.
The EHS Lifecycle
SmartSuite supports the lifecycle of environmental health and safety management — from incident capture through resolution and reporting.
Identify Risks & Hazards
Capture safety and environmental risks.
Report Incidents & Events
Log incidents and workplace issues.
Investigate & Assess Impact
Analyze root causes and risk exposure.
Track Corrective Actions
Assign and manage remediation tasks.
Monitor Compliance & Report
Track performance and regulatory requirements.
Connected EHS Ecosystem
SmartSuite connects EHS with risk, operations, and compliance workflows — ensuring alignment across safety and operational management.
Track and report ESG performance with structured workflows, regulatory alignment, and real-time visibility into sustainability metrics and initiatives.
Centralize enterprise risk management with standardized assessments, dashboards, and linked workflows that align risk, controls, and mitigation across your organization.
Manage vendors and suppliers with structured workflows, performance tracking, and real-time visibility.
Manage assessment campaigns and testing schedules with a reusable question library, automated workflows, and one place for evidence collection.
Who This Product Is For
Environmental Health & Safety supports stakeholders responsible for workplace safety, environmental compliance, and operational risk management.
Chief Operating Officer
Facilities Director
Procurement Manager
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the questions readers ask most about this topic.
Environmental health and safety (EHS) is the practice of managing workplace safety, environmental risks, and regulatory compliance so that employees, contractors, and facilities operate safely and legally. Manual logs and separate tools leave incidents untracked and audits unprepared. SmartSuite records incidents, hazards, inspections, and corrective actions in one program with workflows, and links them to the risk and operations records they affect, so safety performance is visible across sites.
Incidents are logged through forms, from any site, with the details, location, people involved, and photos captured on the record. An investigator is assigned, root cause analysis is documented, and automations create and track the follow-up actions to completion. Recurring issues show up because every incident sits in the same register.
Regulatory requirements are recorded and mapped to the controls, inspections, and reports that satisfy them, with certifications, policies, and audit evidence attached to each requirement. Dashboards show which requirements have current evidence and which are overdue. Reports for regulators are built from the records rather than reassembled from spreadsheets.
Corrective and preventive actions link to the incident, audit, or risk assessment that raised them, each with an owner, deadline, and verification step. Automated notifications and escalation keep actions moving, and the record shows when each was completed and validated. Historical actions reveal which fixes held and which issues returned.
EHS records link to enterprise risk, facilities, and operational workflows, so a safety risk is visible in the risk register and a hazard is visible to the facilities team. An automation can open a risk assessment, maintenance request, or compliance review when an incident of a given type is logged. Departments coordinate from the same records.
Yes. Each site logs and manages its own incidents and inspections while the enterprise view consolidates them, with permissions scoped by location. Workflows stay consistent across sites, with local fields where regulations differ. Performance is reported at site and enterprise level from the same data.
Dashboards track incidents, corrective actions, compliance status, and risk indicators, segmented by location, department, or risk category. Trend charts show where incident rates are rising and which actions remain open. Safety leaders review the dashboard and direct attention to the sites that need it.
Incidents are addressed faster because each one has an owner, a workflow, and automated follow-up, and compliance obligations are tracked rather than remembered. Safety data sits beside operations data, and coordination between teams needs no extra reporting. Over time, sites see fewer repeat incidents and arrive at audits with evidence already in place.
Manage Safety, Compliance, and Environmental Risk with Confidence
SmartSuite helps you track incidents, manage risks, and ensure compliance across your organization.