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Intelex
Intelex is a configurable EHSQ management platform from Toronto, founded in 1992 and part of Fortive since 2019. It holds incidents and root cause analysis, audits and inspections, corrective action, management of change, permit to work, occupational health and industrial hygiene, environmental compliance and quality in one auditable record, with a no-code Application Builder and an AI layer of Input AI and Insight AI. It is a Leader in the Verdantix EHS Green Quadrant 2026. An entry tier starts at $44 per user per month; the full platform is priced on request.
SmartQHSE
SmartQHSE is a QHSE management platform from Dubai, founded in 2024, that brings quality, health, safety and environmental processes into one tool: incidents, inspections and audits, risk assessment, permit to work, training, contractor management, CAPA, document management and environmental compliance, with offline mobile apps. Its AI copilot, ARIA, drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements and HSE plans and checks documents for compliance gaps, billed in AI credits. Prices are published: a free plan for one user, then $19 or $59 per user per month.
Intelex
SmartQHSE
Sustainability Impact
14/20
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13/20
Features & Capabilities
18/20
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16/20
Value for Money
14/20
16/20
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Ease of Use
13/20
16/20
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Trust & Maturity
19/20
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12/20
Pricing
enterprise
freemium
Year founded
1992
2024
Best for
Large, multi-site industrial organizations — manufacturing, chemicals, oil and gas, aviation, utilities — that need one auditable EHSQ record across health and safety, environment, quality and risk, and are formalizing certified ISO 45001, ISO 14001 or ISO 9001 management systems.
Small and mid-sized QHSE teams in construction, oil and gas, manufacturing and infrastructure — especially in the Gulf — that run ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 together and want quality and HSE in one tool, a published price and AI drafting of risk assessments and method statements.
Categories
EHSEHS Compliance
EHSEHS Compliance
Carbon Scopes
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Scope 1 (Direct emissions)Scope 2 (Indirect energy)
Key features
- One Governed Record Across Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Intelex's health and safety catalog alone lists more than thirty applications — incident management, near miss reporting, root cause analysis, CAPA, audits and inspections, risk management, job safety analysis, process hazard analysis, training, occupational health, industrial hygiene and exposure tracking — and its environment and quality catalogs add emissions, water and waste tracking, permits, ESG management, nonconformances and document control. They share one platform, one user identity and consolidated reporting, which is what lets a multi-site group produce one TRIR and one audit trail instead of reconciling regional systems. A no-code Application Builder covers the workflows the catalog does not.
- Control of Work and ISO 45001 Evidence in One Place Permit to Work and Management of Change are native applications, and incidents flow into root cause analysis and corrective action with OSHA 300, 300A and 301 forms produced from the same record. Mapped against ISO 45001, the platform holds evidence for hazard identification (6.1.2), competence (7.2), documented information (7.5), operational control and change (8.1), monitoring (9.1), internal audit (9.2) and corrective action (10.2). The software holds the evidence; the clause is still met by the organization's process, which must be defined before configuration.
- Input AI and Insight AI — Built to Support, Not Replace, Human Decisions Launched on 25 November 2025, Input AI improves data at capture: real-time feedback on open-text fields, predicted form fields, safety observations drafted from photos and data extracted from documents such as safety data sheets. Insight AI works on the accumulated record, labelling unstructured data, summarizing with recommended actions and running predictive models on leading indicators; it was extended in October 2026 alongside a new Chemical Procurement and SDS Management application. Intelex frames both as supporting human decision-making. Accuracy figures for the predictive models are not published.
- Quality, Health, Safety and Environment in One Tool SmartQHSE manages the four QHSE disciplines in one platform instead of leaving quality to a separate system. Its listings cover quality control, corrective and preventive action, document and audit management for quality; incidents, inspections, risk assessment, permit to work, training, contractor management, occupational health, OSHA recordkeeping and emergency response planning for health and safety; and environmental compliance, waste, hazardous materials and sustainability management for the environment. Root cause analysis, workflows, the audit trail and dashboards are shared, so a quality non-conformance and a safety near miss with the same cause can be traced to one corrective action.
- ARIA — AI Drafting Billed in Credits ARIA drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements, HSE plans and toolbox talks, analyses uploaded HSE documents for compliance gaps, supports root cause analysis, generates corrective actions, scores hazards in inspections and audits and analyses site photos. It is metered in credits: an AI risk assessment uses 12, an HSE plan 30 and a toolbox talk 6, with extra credits at $0.35. Starter includes 150 credits a month and Plus 600. The vendor presents ARIA's answers as grounded in a regulatory knowledge base with citations; no accuracy testing has been published.
- Published Pricing, Offline Mobile Apps and Ten Integrations SmartQHSE publishes its prices: a free plan for one user and one project, Starter at $19 per user per month for up to 30 users and Plus at $59 for up to 150, with a 14-day trial that needs no credit card. Web, Android and iOS apps work offline in the field. Ten integrations are listed — Procore, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workspace, Zapier, BambooHR, Workday HCM, Microsoft Power BI, Okta and Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP — plus an API. Support includes email, chat, phone and a 24/7 live representative.
Pros
- Breadth on one record is the decisive advantage. Incidents, root cause analysis, corrective action, audits, risk, permit to work, management of change, occupational health, environment and quality share one platform and one reporting layer, so a multi-site group can produce consistent metrics and a single audit trail.
- It is built for certification evidence. The applications line up with what an ISO 45001 auditor asks to see — hazard identification, competence, change, monitoring, internal audit and corrective action — and OSHA 300, 300A and 301 forms come from the same record.
- Configurability without code. The Application Builder lets EHS teams create workflows the catalog does not cover, so the platform can follow the organization's governance rather than the reverse.
- Quality and HSE in one tool. Quality control, CAPA and document management sit next to incidents, inspections, permits and environmental compliance, so ISO triple-certified teams do not run quality in a separate system.
- Published, low entry prices. A free plan for one user, Starter at $19 and Plus at $59 per user per month, and a 14-day trial without a credit card make the platform easy to test before any procurement process.
- AI where QHSE teams spend their time. ARIA drafts risk assessments, job safety analyses, method statements and HSE plans; the one public review reports a half-day task cut to about 20 minutes.
Cons
- Implementation is a project, not a switch. Governance must be mapped onto the platform before users see it, with professional services, data migration and training on top of the licence. Plan in quarters, not weeks.
- Ease of use is the weakest pillar. The configuration depth that makes Intelex powerful also makes it heavier for frontline users than mobile-first tools; programs still fighting for adoption should start with one of those.
- Only the entry tier has a public price. Safety Essentials starts at $44 per user per month with a 25-user minimum, billed annually; the full EHSQ platform (Advanced and Enterprise) needs a quote before a business case can be written.
- Young, with little evidence. SmartQHSE was founded in 2024, has one public review on Capterra, none on G2, and no analyst coverage we could find; ask for references in your sector and region.
- AI claims are untested in public. The vendor markets ARIA's cited answers as free of hallucinations, but no accuracy testing is published; check citations and have a competent person approve every AI draft.
- No enterprise plan listed. Plus stops at 150 users; larger organizations need to ask how pricing, service levels and support change.
