VelocityEHS Named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026
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VelocityEHS, a global leader in Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) solutions, has been named to Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2026. The recognition highlights the company’s culture of innovation, which is centered on empowering EHS professionals to identify risks earlier, make better-informed decisions, and ultimately protect more workers.
According to Matt Airhart, CEO of VelocityEHS, the company’s approach to innovation is not limited to a single department or technology.
The company’s commitment to innovation is evident in the development of VelocityAI, an intelligence layer within Accelerate, the VelocityEHS Connected Platform. Built around a human-centered approach, VelocityAI provides AI capabilities such as predictive risk detection, insights into potential serious injuries and fatalities, root cause analysis, and intelligent task recommendations. Vēlo, the embedded AI assistant, brings these capabilities into the everyday flow of work, empowering EHS professionals to surface potential risks, strengthen documentation, identify exposures, and recommend corrective actions without manually analyzing thousands of individual data points.
Dr. Julia Penfield, Chief AI Officer at VelocityEHS, emphasized the importance of human judgment in the use of AI.
The company’s 2026 EHS 360 Benchmark Report, based on a survey of 1,008 EHS professionals alongside aggregated and anonymized platform data, found that 44% of respondents identified AI and automation as the largest force shaping the future of the profession, while 76% said AI can meaningfully reduce administrative burden. VelocityEHS is applying this same approach to emerging safety challenges across its unified portfolio. In April 2026, the company introduced its AI Hands & Wrists Assessment within its Industrial Ergonomics solution, using video analysis to help ergonomics and safety teams identify risks associated with repetitive hand grips and wrist motions and prioritize improvements.
VelocityEHS’s CEO, Matt Airhart, emphasized the company’s commitment to continuous innovation. “The opportunity ahead is to keep creating an environment where our people can ask difficult questions, test new ideas, and use technology responsibly to solve real problems. That is how we intend to keep moving EHS forward.”
The recognition from Fast Company is a testament to VelocityEHS’s dedication to innovation and its mission to make workplaces safer. The company continues to invest in its unified portfolio, connected platform, and human-centered AI, ensuring companies can reduce complexity, connect critical safety and risk workflows, and gain greater visibility into enterprise risk.