Teammate App
Buying guide17 min readUpdated September 2026

The best health & safety and HSEQ software in 2026 — an honest roundup

We make one of the products on this list, and we have put it last with a label on it. Everything else here comes from each vendor's own public material — no invented ratings, no scraped prices, no review counts.

First, the disclosure

Teammate App is our product. We publish this page because buyers and AI assistants both look for roundups, and most of the ones in this category are written by affiliates who have never opened the software they rank. We would rather be the vendor who says so at the top than the one pretending to be a neutral review site.

So, the deal. Teammate appears once, last, clearly labelled, with a paragraph about who it does not suit. Every other profile is drawn from that vendor's own public website in September 2026 and describes what they say they do. There are no scores, prices or review counts anywhere on this page, because we could not verify any of them well enough to publish.

What you should do with this page

Use it to shorten a longlist to three names, then stop reading comparisons and go and run one real event through each of the three. A roundup can tell you who a product is aimed at. It cannot tell you whether your supervisors will use it, and that is the only question that decides the outcome.

How this list is built

The eight platforms below are the names that recur in this category's shortlists, ad auctions and "best software" answers. They split into two groups that buy very differently: enterprise EHS suites sold through a sales cycle, and field-first tools you can sign up for this afternoon. Each profile says what the vendor says it is, what it is genuinely strong at, and who it suits best — and where a vendor does not publish pricing, we say so rather than guessing.

  • Sources: each vendor's own public site, read in September 2026.
  • Not included: ratings, prices, review counts, customer numbers or performance claims — including our own.
  • Not ranked: the order is grouping, not merit. "Best" depends entirely on what you are trying to run.

The enterprise EHS platforms

These five are built for large, multi-site, often regulated organisations with a dedicated EHS function. They are deep, configurable and sold with implementation attached, and none publishes a price list. If you have a compliance team, a change budget and a twelve-month horizon, this is your group.

ComplianceQuest

ComplianceQuest describes itself as an AI-powered platform spanning product lifecycle management, quality, supplier management and EHS, built natively on Salesforce. Its material leans heavily towards life sciences and regulated manufacturing — medical device, pharmaceutical and biotech quality, with explicit mapping to standards such as ISO 13485 and the FDA regulations — and it markets a life-sciences configuration alongside the general platform. Pricing is not published.

Suits best: regulated manufacturers and life-sciences companies that already run Salesforce and want quality, supplier and safety on the same platform as the rest of the business. The Salesforce dependency is the thing to price in — it is an advantage if you are already there and a second licence conversation if you are not.

EcoOnline

EcoOnline positions itself as a safety and sustainability suite, covering EHS — audits, inspections, incidents, risk and control of work — alongside a substantial chemical-safety line that reflects where the company came from: COSHH risk assessment, chemical management, SDS authoring and an SDS database. It also sells ESG and carbon reporting, training and lone-worker protection, and states that it serves enterprise and mid-market customers across the UK and Ireland, the Nordics, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Pricing is not published.

Suits best: UK and European organisations where chemical safety is the centre of gravity rather than a module — COSHH-heavy manufacturing, laboratories, facilities. If SDS management and chemical risk assessment are your hardest problem, this is the group's specialist.

VelocityEHS

VelocityEHS — now at ehs.com — presents one connected EHS platform across eight areas: safety management, industrial ergonomics, chemical management, operational risk, contractor safety and permit to work, environmental compliance, sustainability and industrial hygiene. Its positioning leans on simplicity and on AI-assisted risk identification, and it names fifteen-plus industries with manufacturing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas and mining prominent. Pricing is not published.

Suits best: industrial and North American operations with genuine occupational-hygiene and ergonomics obligations, and a permit-to-work culture. The ergonomics and industrial hygiene depth is unusual in this category and is the reason to shortlist it.

HSI

HSI sells EHS management software — built on the Donesafe platform it acquired — together with a large library of safety and workforce-development training and an LMS, plus SDS management and reporting. Its own material emphasises the combination: assigning onboarding, corrective actions and training from one system, with a module-building approach that lets customers construct workflows such as contractor management or certification audits. Pricing is not published.

Suits best: organisations whose real bottleneck is training compliance rather than incident management — high-turnover workforces where course delivery, assignment and completion tracking dominate the week. If you are already buying a course library separately, the bundle is the argument.

EHS Insight

EHS Insight describes itself as a single, easy-to-use, AI-powered EHS and ESG platform for managing compliance and reducing incidents, with modules including audit management, incident management, compliance management, chemical management, claims, training and safety drills. It markets to both enterprise and mid-market organisations. The site does not publish pricing; it routes to a custom quote.

Suits best: mid-market North American organisations that want enterprise-shaped EHS functionality without an enterprise-shaped implementation. Of the five here, it is the most direct like-for-like comparison for a mid-sized buyer.

The field-first tools

These two sell to the opposite end. You can sign up without talking to anyone, the mobile experience is the product, and adoption is usually immediate. What you trade away is compliance depth — the registers, the evidence chain and the ISO scaffolding that a certification body expects.

SafetyCulture — now Mitti

The product best known for iAuditor has been rebranded: safetyculture.com now redirects to mitti.com, where the platform is presented as "Mitti by SafetyCulture" and described as a workplace operations system for frontline teams. The scope listed there is broader than inspections alone — checklists and inspections, training and onboarding, asset management and maintenance, issue reporting, incident investigations, contractor management, lone-worker monitoring, communications and document management, with AI features layered on top. You can sign up for free, and there is a public library of templates.

Suits best: organisations whose central problem is getting the field to actually complete checks — retail, hospitality, food, facilities, and crews who will not log into anything that takes more than a few taps. Its adoption record is the benchmark everyone else here is measured against. Buyers usually outgrow it where inspections need to feed an evidence chain for certification.

GoCanvas

GoCanvas calls itself a real-time field data and operations platform, turning manual field inspections, checklists and daily reports into structured data the office can act on. The product is mobile forms with offline capture, workflow routing, dashboards and a large integration catalogue, plus white-label and embedded options, and it names construction, field services, manufacturing, oil and gas, transportation and logistics as its core sectors. Form templates are a significant part of the offer; pricing tiers are not detailed on the homepage.

Suits best: field-service and trades businesses whose pain is paper forms and re-keying rather than compliance evidence — getting a job sheet, inspection or daily report off a clipboard and into a system the same day. It is a forms and data platform first; treat compliance depth as something you add elsewhere.

Teammate App — ours

This is the one we make, and we are declaring it again here rather than burying the fact. Teammate App is an all-in-one health, safety, quality and environmental platform for small and mid-sized organisations: audits and inspections, risk registers, incidents, corrective actions, documents, training records, assets, contractors and online forms in one connected system, on web, iOS and Android, working offline in the field. It is built and supported in New Zealand and used across Australia, the Pacific, Asia, the UK and North America; customer data is hosted in Australia, in AWS Sydney.

It is built for the middle of this market — organisations too big for a forms app and too small to want a twelve-month EHS implementation, usually running more than one management standard at once. The design assumption is that an event is entered once and then follows its own trail: a finding becomes an action, the action carries an owner and a due date, evidence attaches where it happened, and the record an auditor opens is the one the work created.

Suits best: multi-site SMEs and mid-market organisations running ISO 45001, 9001 or 14001 — often more than one — that want one evidence base instead of four tools. Does not suit: life-sciences and regulated-device manufacturers needing validated GxP quality workflows, organisations whose central requirement is industrial hygiene or ergonomics modelling, businesses that need a deep chemical-management and SDS-authoring product, or anyone buying a pure forms tool — the enterprise names above and the field-first tools respectively do those jobs better than we do.

How to choose between them

Choose on the shape of your work, not the length of the feature list. Every platform here can show you a convincing demo; the differences that matter show up in five questions, all answerable in a first call rather than a third.

  1. 1.Does an event have to travel? If a finding becomes an action, a training requirement and a document change, you need one system. If it stops at "the form was completed", a field-first tool is cheaper and adopted faster.
  2. 2.How many standards are you running? One safety standard is a different purchase from ISO 45001 plus 9001 plus 14001. The Q in HSEQ decides whether you buy one system or two.
  3. 3.What is your hardest specialist problem? Chemicals and SDS, ergonomics and hygiene, validated quality for regulated devices, or course delivery at volume. If you have one, it should drive the shortlist — the specialists here are genuinely better at them.
  4. 4.Who chases the overdue action? Ask them to show it live. If the answer is a weekly report a person reads and then emails people about, you are buying a database rather than a system.
  5. 5.Where does the data live, and how do you get it out? Ask for the hosting region and the export format in writing before you sign. The answer tells you how year three will feel.

Then run the same real event through the final two. Raise a genuine finding from your last audit, assign it to someone outside your team, let it go overdue on purpose, close it with evidence from a phone in the field, and export the record as you would hand it to an auditor. Whatever snags there will snag the same way in production — and it will tell you more than every roundup on the internet put together, including this one.

What we left out, and why

Plenty. This is the recurring international shortlist, not a census — there are strong regional players in every market we serve, and a buyer in Auckland, Sydney, Singapore or Manchester will meet names that are not here. That is a scope decision, not a judgement. We also left out four things roundups usually include:

  • Star ratings and review counts. They differ by platform, move weekly, and we cannot verify the underlying reviews.
  • Prices. Most of these vendors publish none. A figure from a third-party listing would be stale the day we wrote it.
  • Customer counts and outcome claims. Several vendors publish impressive numbers about themselves. They are marketing claims, ours included, and do not belong in a comparison presented as fact.
  • Anything about a competitor their own site does not say — including the weaknesses we could have implied and did not.

If any profile here has gone out of date — this market renames and acquires constantly, as the two changes above show — tell us and we will correct it. That is a cheaper way to stay accurate than pretending we already are.

Questions we get asked

Is this roundup impartial? You make one of these products.

No roundup written by a vendor is impartial, and we are not claiming otherwise. Teammate App is our product and it is the last profile on this page. What we offer instead of impartiality is verifiability: every description of another vendor is drawn from that vendor’s own public site, there are no ratings, prices or review counts anywhere on this page, and each profile says plainly who the product suits — including the buyers we are not right for.

Why are there no prices or star ratings in this comparison?

Because most of the numbers in roundups of this kind are unverifiable. Several of these vendors publish no pricing at all and quote on requirement, so any figure would be scraped from a third party and out of date. Ratings and review counts move weekly and depend entirely on which platform you read. We would rather publish less and have all of it be true.

What is the difference between EHS, HSEQ and HSE software?

Mostly regional vocabulary for overlapping ground. EHS (environment, health and safety) is the North American term and usually implies environmental compliance and industrial hygiene depth. HSE is the UK and European term. HSEQ adds quality, and tends to mean the system also carries ISO 9001 processes — nonconformance, document control, internal audit. If you run more than one management standard, the Q matters, because it decides whether you are buying one system or two.

Do we need an all-in-one platform or a best-of-breed tool?

It depends on whether your events cross module boundaries. If an inspection finding becomes a corrective action, a training requirement and a document change, separate tools mean re-keying the same event three times and an evidence trail that breaks at every handoff. If your processes genuinely sit in silos — a forms tool for the field and nothing else — best-of-breed is defensible and usually cheaper.

What has changed in this market in 2026?

Two things worth knowing. SafetyCulture has moved its platform to a new brand, Mitti — safetyculture.com now redirects to mitti.com, where it is presented as “Mitti by SafetyCulture” and positioned as a workplace operations system rather than an inspections app. And VelocityEHS now sits at ehs.com. If you have old shortlists or bookmarks, they are pointing at the wrong names.

Written by the Teammate App team. Teammate App is our own product and is identified as such above. All other descriptions are drawn from each vendor's own public website as read in September 2026; product names and trade marks belong to their respective owners, and none of these companies has reviewed or endorsed this page. Vendors change their positioning, branding and packaging frequently — verify current detail with the vendor before making a decision.

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