The Business Case for ASTM E2920-26: Why Safety Leaders Are Making It a Strategic Priority
Recordable rates such as TRIR and DART have helped safety teams track progress for decades, and they have trended steadily downward. That foundation makes room for a new focus: seeing where the most serious harm could occur. In the United States, 5,070 workers died from work injuries in 2024, after 5,283 in 2023, while the […]
Subscriber Spotlight Q&A with Mary Ann Polad, Senior Director of QEHS & Sustainability at The Boston Beer Company
Keeping People in the Loop: How the Good Catch Program Turns Safety Data Into Action For Mary Ann Polad, an effective safety reporting program needs to fit into the way people already work. At The Boston Beer Company, this principle shapes its Good Catch program, the company’s name for its digitized concern-reporting process. Coworkers can […]
How EHS Audit Programs Create Operational Value
EHS audits have long helped organizations evaluate alignment with regulatory requirements, internal standards, and established management practices. Checklists and reports remain essential to this process, and their value grows when the insights they capture inform ongoing risk management, corrective action, and continuous improvement. Much of an audit’s operational value emerges after an observation is made. […]
What Defines a Strong Process Safety Management Platform in 2026
Choosing process safety management software is difficult because the platform has to support far more than one workflow. It needs to work across the way teams manage risk, changes, incidents, and other process safety activities across the organization. That is what makes Benchmark Gensuite’s placement as a Leader in the 2026 Verdantix Green Quadrant for […]
Subscriber Spotlight Q&A with Sandra Neale of GE Vernova
How Co-Innovation Helped Advance Serious Event Prevention with the PSI AI Advisor Serious-event prevention depends on recognizing risk before it becomes an incident. For Sandra Neale of GE Vernova, that means learning from the safety concerns, stop-work reports, incident descriptions, and other information teams already collect across their operations. Around early 2020, Sandra began working […]
What the 2026 Verdantix Green Quadrant Reveals About Choosing a Long-Term EHS Platform Partner
Selecting an enterprise EHS platform requires a long-term view. Organizations need software that can support current programs, adapt to new requirements, and continue improving after implementation. The provider’s ability to respond to customer needs matters as much as the technology itself. The 2026 Verdantix Green Quadrant: EHS Software provides an independent benchmark of the market, […]
Which Genny AI Abilities Are Driving the Next Wave of EHS Productivity?
From AI Adoption to Measurable Operational Transformation Artificial intelligence has entered a new phase across Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS), Sustainability, Quality, and Operational Risk management. Just a year ago, the primary question organizations were asking was: Should we adopt AI? Today, leading organizations are asking a much more strategic question: Which Genny AI capabilities […]
Industry Leaders Agree: EHS Is Becoming an Enterprise Operational Excellence Function
The responsibilities of today’s EHS leaders extend far beyond regulatory compliance. Alongside protecting workers and managing risk, many are helping organizations navigate workforce shortages, strengthen employee engagement, and improve performance. As the role expands, businesses are redefining what success looks like. Increasingly, EHS is expected not only to reduce risk, but also to improve operational […]
Collaborative Innovation: How the Benchmark Gensuite Community Continues to Shape Operational Excellence
Each year, the Benchmark Gensuite IMPACT Conference brings together EHS, Sustainability, Quality, and Operational Risk leaders from around the world to exchange ideas, discuss emerging challenges, and explore technologies shaping the future of their work. IMPACT 2026 marked the largest gathering in the conference’s history, welcoming more than 400 attendees from 134 subscriber organizations. Throughout […]
Moving Beyond TRIR: Preparing for ASTM E2920-26 & A New Approach to Serious Injury Prevention
At IMPACT 2026, one topic consistently rose to the top across executive discussions and subscriber sessions: Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention. As organizations continue reducing traditional OSHA recordable rates, many EHS leaders are recognizing that low TRIR numbers do not always mean low catastrophic risk exposure. The focus is shifting from simply tracking injury […]