How to evaluate EHS platforms when your workforce is half contractors and your audit is every quarter. A vendor-agnostic framework that helps you compare across categories that don't compare apples-to-apples.
Most heavy-industry EHS evaluations end with three shortlisted vendors that don't belong in the same conversation. One is a paper-replacement forms app. One is a legacy multi-suite incumbent with a six-figure list price. One is a modern operational platform pitched on field-side capture. Each vendor demos to its own strength, and the procurement team is left to translate.
This guide gives you a way to compare them honestly.
The "four roads" — paper, generic forms apps, legacy multi-suite platforms, modern operational EHS — and the actual strengths and tradeoffs of each. Categorical, so it survives whichever vendors land on your shortlist.
Concrete, demo-ready questions on contractor access, federal-data currency, pricing transparency, deployment timeline, and audit-binder portability. The answers will sort your shortlist faster than another round of demos.
Six weighted categories tuned for heavy industry. Score each vendor zero to five. The scorecard won't pick the vendor for you, but it will surface the tradeoffs the demo did not.
Four pricing models in the category and how to translate per-user into per-site math. Which integrations actually matter. How to read a SOC 2 status honestly. How long implementation should take, and what's a red flag.
Heavy industry — mining, construction, manufacturing, oil & gas, paving. A workforce that's part employee, part contractor. An audit cycle that doesn't pause for procurement. If that's you, this guide reads in 25 minutes and gives you something you can hand to your team and your CFO.
14 pages, letter portrait, around 376 KB. Distribute freely inside your organization or share with peers running their own evaluations. The framework is vendor-agnostic; Kinetiq Analytics appears briefly at the end, by name, in the section labeled accordingly.
If you'd rather walk the framework against your real shortlist on a 30-minute call, we'll do that. Same scorecard, your actual vendor names plugged in. We're happy to do it whether or not the next conversation is with Kinetiq.
Long-form on Auto-RCA under MSHA Part 50, on OSHA 1926 contractor recordkeeping, a side-by-side against legacy EHS, and the public security overview. All under /resources.