Buyer guidance by The QHSE Standard · Updated 20 September 2026
The catalog candidates matching both risk assessment and energy & utilities are Emex, SoterAI and SoterCoach, Tekmon, Cority, Enablon, Haz360, Sphera, Datamaran, Ideagen EHS, Protex AI and SafeContractor. This is a documentation-based shortlist, not a performance ranking; verify the exact application, plan and deployment fit with each vendor.
Identify, score, and control workplace and operational risks.
For requirements beyond this category, read the Energy & Utilities QHSE buying guide.
Editorial responsibility: Dimitris Mitsios (Founder of The QHSE Standard; product marketing at Tekmon) · Tekmon pays for sponsored placements on this site (disclosure) · How pages are made · LinkedIn
Use these risk assessment tasks for your Energy & Utilities evaluation. Adapt them to your operations; these are demo requests, not observed vendor results.
Assess one task, change a control and send the revised assessment for approval before the next shift.
Evidence to retain: Show the scoring rules, earlier version, control owner and reason for the residual risk rating.
Use a travelling crew visiting multiple assets and handing an unresolved issue to another team.
Before proceeding: Check asset identifiers, location context, offline preparation and reassignment across service areas.
Record demonstrated, partial, unmet and untested requirements separately. Leave a candidate pending if an essential requirement remains untested.
See filled-in requirements, quote and pilot examples →Energy and utility risk assessment spans very different scales: a formal hazard study for a gas plant, an explosion protection document for a zoned area, and a job briefing before a crew works on a line. Each has its own rule. Where dangerous substances may be present, the assessment must consider the likelihood and persistence of an explosive atmosphere and of ignition sources, and be recorded; in the EU an explosion protection document must be kept up to date. For electrical work in the US, the person in charge holds a job briefing before each job and again when conditions change.
Decide which level you are buying for, because the products below document different levels. A hazard-study tool needs traceable scenarios and recommendations; a field briefing tool needs speed and a record of who attended.
Summarised from the linked official texts, read on 25 September 2026. This is buyer context, not legal advice: have the responsible specialists confirm which requirements apply to your sites.
Utility assets are dispersed: substations, pipelines, networks and metering points, with crews who start a job in an unfamiliar place under changing weather, traffic and third-party hazards such as buried services or adjacent live equipment. A task assessment written in an office cannot hold all of that, so the buying criterion is how a crew adds site-specific hazards on arrival to a generic task assessment, whether the generic version stays untouched, and whether a hazard found on arrival can change the go or no-go decision and tell someone who is not on site.
The second criterion is where the tool stops. In energy and utilities the live state of isolation, earthing and permit status usually sits in an operational or permit system, not in the risk tool, so a risk product that asks crews to retype that state creates a second source of truth. Ask what the tool reads and what it duplicates. Then ask about change: a network reconfiguration, a new piece of equipment or a temporary operating arrangement should prompt reassessment, and a zone classification that changes in the explosion protection document should reach the assessments that rely on it. Assets in service for decades also need their assessment history to be exportable.
Two lines carry most of the signal. The offline classification matters because crews work outside coverage, and a job briefing that can only be completed online will be completed afterwards, from memory. The category line matters because risk assessment products range from hazard-study tools to field briefing apps. Read a price signal only after you have decided which of the three levels you are buying for, because the products named here do not all serve the same one.
Signals in the researched records of the listed products:
Vendor-material signals, not test results; the commercial partner is not counted; no signal means not established.
Ask each vendor to run these steps with synthetic data. They are demo requests, not observed vendor results.
Tekmon pays for a sponsored placement (above); its place in this list follows the same rule as every entry. How lists are ordered
QHSE Management
Emex documents configurable risk templates and matrices with actions for identified risks. A utility can build a template per asset class; permit and isolation controls are not established in the reviewed pages. Vendor source, profile checked 11 October 2026.
Occupational Health
SoterAI and SoterCoach documents phone-video ergonomic assessment connected to a control owner and a reassessment. Manual handling of meters, valves and cable drums is a utility risk; offline assessment is not established. Vendor source, profile checked 12 October 2026.
EHS Management
Tekmon documents configurable risk assessments and matrices (the full description is on its profile). Vendor source, profile checked 28 September 2026.
EHS Management
Cority documents electronic permit requests with configurable approvals and monitoring of conflicting active permits. A risk assessment for high-hazard work is only as good as the permit that enforces it; demonstrate suspension and reauthorisation. Vendor source, profile checked 14 October 2026.
QHSE Management
Enablon documents Operational Risk Assessment within its Control of Work portfolio, next to Permit to Work and Isolation Management. Linking the assessment to the permit is the point; demonstrate approval responsibilities for each application. Vendor source, profile checked 14 October 2026.
Process Safety
Haz360 documents HAZID, HAZOP, SIL and LOPA templates, concurrent browser editing and an audit log of every change with date and time. For a gas or power plant's formal studies that traceability is central; offline editing is not documented. Vendor source, profile checked 14 October 2026.
EHS Management
Sphera documents a management-of-change application with predefined workflows, centralised reviews, approvals and process history. Plant modifications that alter an explosion protection document should pass through that review; confirm inclusion and approval gates. Vendor source, profile checked 11 October 2026.
ESG & Sustainability
Datamaran documents double materiality analysis with value streams, weights and AI-suggested impacts, risks and opportunities that users review. That is enterprise ESG risk, not operational risk assessment; a utility's sustainability team might use it, its safety team would not. Vendor source, source 2, profile checked 14 October 2026.
EHS Management
Ideagen EHS documents risk assessment tools and compliance tracking in its EHS product. Those support the process rather than guarantee consistency across older installations, so test with one of your own electrical assessments. Vendor source, profile checked 11 October 2026.
EHS Management
Protex AI documents vehicle event rules by zone with distance, direction, speed and count settings on existing CCTV. At a depot or plant yard that turns a traffic risk assessment into monitored rules; it is not proof of zero personal-data processing. Vendor source, source 2, source 3, profile checked 10 October 2026.
Contractor Safety Management
SafeContractor documents UK contractor company document assessment. For utilities that depend on contractors for network work, this addresses the contractor's paperwork; it is not an operational risk-assessment tool. Vendor source, profile checked 11 October 2026.
Products match the catalog's category and industry tags and are ordered by how closely our sources document each product for the category: primary category first, then a sourced tag or documented capability, then how complete the researched profile is and whether it documents a price, a free trial and offline use, then name. Stars appear only where we hold review data for the product and never affect the order. Position in the list is not an assessment of fit or quality.
A catalog tag does not establish a verified deployment or suitability for your workflow. Product profiles identify available vendor sources and review dates. This page does not report customer interviews or hands-on comparative testing. A labelled sponsored placement is additional to the list. The commercial partner also appears organically when it meets the same inclusion rule, with the same ordering and styling as every entry; see how lists are ordered.
Each card's evidence row comes from the sources recorded in the product's profile. "Documents" means the vendor's own material describes the capability; it is not a test result or an assessment of fit.
Read the editorial methodology, compare quote scope, or use the demo scorecard to record your own evidence.
Shortlist guide for risk assessment for small businesses.
Software guide on risk assessment.
Free template for a 5x5 risk assessment matrix.
Definition of the hierarchy of controls.
Definition of a hazard and operability study.
