EHS software, short for environment, health and safety software, is the software in which a plant records its emissions, waste, accidents and safety checks, so that the company can manage them and report them. It is older software. Companies have bought it for years, well before carbon reporting became common.
The records are of four kinds. Emissions and waste are logged against the limits set by a pollution control board, the state body that gives a plant its permission to operate. Accidents and near misses are logged with the date, place and cause. A near miss is an event that could have hurt someone but did not, such as a tool falling from a platform onto an empty floor. Safety checks, such as a monthly inspection of fire extinguishers, are scheduled and ticked off. And each problem found gets a corrective action, with a person responsible and a due date.
Here is a typical case. A safety officer at a chemical plant in Dahej records that an employee slipped on an oily floor on the third shift. The software stores the date, the place and the cause. It creates a task for the maintenance team to fix the leak by Friday. It also opens a task for the safety officer to check on Friday that the fix is done. At the end of the month the same software adds up accidents by plant, so that the head office can see which plant is worst.
Indian plants need this record for several reasons. India's workplace safety law requires a plant to keep records of accidents and inspections. That law is now the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020. It came into force on 21 November 2025 and replaced the Factories Act, 1948. The pollution control board asks for returns on waste and emissions. Customers and insurers ask for safety figures before they sign a contract. Before the software, these records lived in paper registers, and a missed inspection was found only after something went wrong.
EHS software sits close to other plant software. The quality management system sends audit findings into it. A portable gas detector, worn by a worker, raises an alarm that is logged as an event. The emissions records go to carbon accounting software, which is newer and is built to produce the Scope 1, 2 and 3 report. EHS software records what happened at one plant. Carbon accounting adds up and converts it for the whole company. The whole area is described in sustainability management.