2026 EHS Trends and Priorities: What Manufacturers Need to Know

New research from Intelex reveals where EHS is headed - and what it means for manufacturers navigating AI adoption, tighter regulations, and a shifting workforce.

Based on a survey of 864 senior EHS professionals across North America and Europe, this report delivers manufacturing-specific benchmarks and actionable insights for 2026.

In this report, you'll learn:

  • Why manufacturing leads other industries in executive EHS engagement at 73% and how to sustain it
  • The safety culture approaches gaining traction - with 46% of manufacturers relying on mandatory protocols
  • Where AI and IoT are driving real improvements and where implementation challenges remain
  • What 85% of manufacturing respondents say about workforce engagement as the top ROI driver
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The AI Data Layer Your Support Team Has Been Missing

Most support organizations lose their richest source of intelligence the moment a remote session ends. Agents close tickets, type brief notes, and all the diagnostic context and resolution logic disappears.

ScreenMeet's AI Data Layer captures every remote support session as structured, AI-ready data inside the platforms you already trust

Simple to turn on. Fast to validate. Teams see value in weeks, not quarters.

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The Complete Guide To AI-Enhanced ServiceNow Workflow Automation

Most organizations barely scratch the surface of ServiceNow workflow automation. They build basic if-then rules while missing the AI-powered capabilities that transform what automation can accomplish.

This guide covers the full journey from foundational flows to autonomous AI agents, with practical frameworks at every stage:

  • Three stages of workflow maturity: basic automation, intelligent orchestration, and AI-powered transformation with Predictive Intelligence and Now Assist
  • Flow Designer vs. Classic Workflow: when to use each, migration strategy, and best practices for resilient, maintainable automation
  • AI-enhanced workflows in practice: how Predictive Intelligence, Now Assist, and AI Agent Studio work together to route, resolve, and learn autonomously
  • The training data challenge: why AI capabilities plateau and how platform-native session intelligence closes the gap
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Why IT Teams Are Tossing Out TeamViewer And Switching To Platform-Native Remote Support

TeamViewer creates an intelligence black hole. Every remote support session happens in a separate system your platform AI can't see, and with only 33% enterprise adoption, two-thirds of your support data never reaches your AI at all.

This guide breaks down the real cost of consumer-built remote support and what changes when you go platform-native:

  • The AI Acceleration Loop: how platform-native support creates compounding intelligence that consumer tools can't match
  • Four break points where TeamViewer kills your AI learning pipeline
  • Security vulnerabilities from consumer-first architecture, including the June 2024 corporate IT breach
  • Compliance gaps that leave your audit team without answers on data residency, consent logging, and session documentation
  • Real-world results from ServiceNow, Salesforce, OpenTable, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
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Break Up With BeyondTrust. Unlock Your Platform AI.

BeyondTrust's appliance-based architecture traps troubleshooting intelligence outside your ITSM platform. Your AI can't learn from what it can't see, and your platform investment delivers a fraction of its potential.

This guide breaks down the real cost of bolt-on remote support and what changes when you go platform-native:

  • The AI plateau: why Now Assist and Agentforce stop improving when session data stays siloed
  • Security architecture risks exposed by BeyondTrust's December 2024 breach (17 customers compromised)
  • Workflow fragmentation that drives up to 40% productivity loss from constant context switching
  • Infrastructure overhead that turns your IT team into appliance managers instead of platform strategists
  • Real-world results from ServiceNow, Salesforce, OpenTable, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
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Why Leading IT Teams Are Moving Remote Support Inside ServiceNow

Separate remote support tools create a documentation gap that limits agent productivity and starves your AI of the data it needs. Every context switch is lost knowledge.

ScreenMeet is the ServiceNow-native remote support platform that eliminates that gap entirely. Sessions launch from incidents, run within ServiceNow workflows, and automatically capture comprehensive documentation through AI, all without agents lifting a finger.

Self-funding through productivity gains with typical payback in 6-12 months.

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How To Fix the IT Documentation Gap & Pave the Way for Agentic Support Transformation

Most ServiceNow environments sit on thousands of resolved incidents with resolution notes that say little more than "Fixed" or "Done." That missing context doesn't just slow down your agents. It limits every AI capability your platform offers.

This guide introduces the ServiceNow AI Acceleration Loop, a four-stage maturity framework that turns incomplete documentation into the structured data foundation your AI needs to deliver real results.

What you'll learn:

  • Why the "Done" gap is the single biggest barrier to ServiceNow AI ROI
  • How automated session documentation replaces manual note-taking without adding agent workload
  • The four stages from reactive support to predictive automation, with action items for each
  • How organizations are reaching 45-60% Virtual Agent deflection and 75-85% Now Assist accuracy
  • A 90-day roadmap to transform your IT support operation
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How IT Teams Are Using AI To Transform ITSM Inside ServiceNow

AI-powered ITSM isn't theoretical anymore. Teams running ServiceNow are already automating triage, generating documentation, deflecting tickets, and predicting problems before they escalate. This field guide shows you exactly how they're doing it.

Instead of a feature overview, you'll get 10 workflow-level blueprints you can evaluate and implement right away, each with clear prerequisites, timelines, and ROI projections.

What you'll learn:

  • How Predictive Intelligence automates incident triage, routing, and prioritization
  • A workflow that turns every resolved incident into a published knowledge base article
  • How to deflect 40-60% of common requests using Virtual Agent and a stronger knowledge base
  • Proactive approaches to problem detection, change risk scoring, and patch management
  • A phased implementation roadmap to avoid disruption and build momentum
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How Enterprise IT Teams Resolve Issues on Any Device Without Waiting for a User

ScreenMeet Beam gives your IT team secure, always-on access to endpoints and headless devices - all from inside ServiceNow. No end-user interaction. No scheduling delays. Just fast, reliable resolution with a full audit trail.

This one-pager breaks down how Beam works and why leading IT organizations trust it for unattended support at scale.

Teams can stand up ScreenMeet Beam and see value in weeks, not quarters. Join 25,000+ agents already using ScreenMeet today.

See exactly how it works in the full one-pager.

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How The Governed Workspace Eliminates Browser Chaos

Your employees toggle between 1,200+ apps a day, losing hours to disconnected systems and constant context switching. The browser was the problem all along.

HERE Enterprise Browser brings applications, AI and workflows into one governed environment - purpose-built for enterprise complexity, not retrofitted from consumer technology.

In this overview, you'll discover:

  • How Supertabs arrange applications side by side for specific roles and tasks, eliminating context switching entirely
  • Why any approved AI model can be embedded directly in the workflow with built-in data loss protection
  • How SuperSearch reaches every enterprise system from one interface, even behind authentication barriers
  • Why governance, AI permissions and full audit trails are built in from day one
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Energy-Based Safety: Applying the 80/20 Rule to SIF Prevention in High-Risk Operations

Fatality rates in high-risk industries have stayed flat for decades, even as recordable injury rates have fallen. Traditional safety programs catch the visible hazards but miss the high-energy sources that cause the most severe outcomes.

Energy-based safety offers a different approach. Built on research showing that 13 high-energy hazards account for 85% of serious injuries and fatalities, it gives EHS teams a structured way to focus on what matters most.

Inside this report you will find:

  • How the Energy Wheel improves hazard recognition by approximately 30% during pre-job briefs
  • How High Energy Control Assessments (HECA) provide a quantitative score for safety capacity in any job task
  • How the Safety Classification and Learning (SCL) model helps you classify events consistently and prioritize investigations
  • How energy-based observations transform safety measurement from lagging indicators to real-time, actionable insights
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The Intelex Environmental, Health & Safety Blueprint: How to Drive Proactive Improvements Across Your Business

Most organizations know they need to move from reactive incident management to proactive prevention. The challenge is knowing where to start and how to sustain progress as conditions change.

This guide breaks the improvement process into five actionable focus areas, from identifying your biggest data and compliance gaps to measuring the impact of your interventions and evolving your approach over time.

Inside you'll find:

  • A maturity framework that helps you assess where your H&S and ESG programs stand today (Leader, Adopter, Follower, or Laggard)
  • Practical guidance for each stage, with specific actions tailored to your current level
  • Strategies for connecting root cause analysis to corrective actions and tracking follow-through
  • Approaches to building leading indicators that help you prevent incidents, not just record them
  • Case studies from Virgin Atlantic, SUEZ, SGS, Fortive, and Cory showing real-world results
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The Food & Beverage EHSQ Cookbook: 6 Recipes for Staying in Control Under Pressure

In food and beverage operations, compliance pressure doesn't arrive on a schedule. Audits overlap with production peaks. Corrective actions stall in spreadsheets. New hires cycle through faster than training programs can keep up.

This guide walks through six real-world scenarios that food and beverage teams face every day, from preparing for audits without disrupting production to managing change across multi-site operations, and shows what leading organizations do differently.

Inside you'll find:

  • Practical frameworks for audit readiness, food safety escalation, and corrective action follow-through
  • Strategies for training high-turnover, multilingual frontline workforces
  • Approaches to management of change that prevent new risk from being introduced silently
  • How connected EHSQ systems turn daily work into audit-ready evidence
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Creating and Sustaining a Safety Culture

Every organization wants a safe working environment. But there is a gap between having a safety strategy and having a culture where employees live and breathe safety in how they work every day.

This mini-guide from Intelex gives EHS leaders a practical framework for closing that gap and building a safety culture that sticks.

In this guide, you will learn:

  • Why even robust safety strategies fail when culture is not aligned and how to bridge the gap
  • How leadership sets the tone for safety culture and why accountability must start at the top
  • Why safety communication must focus on the why as much as the how to drive real behavior change
  • The five building blocks of an effective safety culture: compliance, capability development, communication, management involvement, and measurement
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The EHSQ Field Guide for Pharmaceuticals

In pharma, compliance challenges rarely stem from a single issue. Fragmented systems make it hard to trace work end-to-end, and when teams treat incidents, audits, and CAPAs as isolated tasks, problems get fixed locally instead of reduced across sites.

This guide from Intelex walks through seven scenarios pharma EHSQ teams face and shows how connecting safety, quality, and operations changes the outcome.

In this guide, you will learn:

  • How to manage incidents that become quality deviations without creating conflicting records
  • Why compliance processes break down when auditors arrive and how to fix it
  • How to handle Management of Change so improvements do not introduce new risk
  • How to standardize reporting across global sites while respecting local regulations
  • Ways to turn audit findings into preventive action instead of repeating fixes site by site
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