Health, safety, and industrial hygiene professionals are continually confronted with the challenge to gather, review, and act wisely based on various types of data. In their efforts to improve safety, organizations should examine a variety of health and safety metrics. Safety management software is one tool available that can help safety professionals to consolidate this data and improve the safety decision-making process.

This article explores how safety management software can assist in the data collection and data analysis needs of the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) manager.