EHS Insight and Novara Flex (formerly KPA Flex) are often evaluated together by organizations in high-risk industries seeking safety management software. Understanding each platform's design philosophy and market focus is key to making the right decision.
Novara Flex is a configurable EHS software platform focused on frontline safety workflows and operational risk management. Formerly operating as KPA Flex under KPA — which served both the automotive industry and broader high-risk sectors — Novara was established as an independent company in January 2026 when KPA separated its automotive compliance business from its industrial safety software operations.
Novara Flex's primary value proposition is configurability and frontline usability. The platform is designed for organizations in construction, manufacturing, utilities, and oil and gas that need a flexible system for form building, inspection management, incident tracking, training assignment, and mobile reporting. Users consistently cite Novara Flex's customization capabilities and customer support as strengths. The platform includes an integrated training library of over 1,000 courses and supports SDS management.
Novara is building out AI capabilities under its new leadership, with plans to integrate AI functionality into the Flex platform announced as a priority following the company's separation from KPA.
EHS Insight is a comprehensive EHS management platform that supports the full lifecycle of a safety program — from frontline incident reporting and near miss capture through OSHA recordkeeping, investigation management, root cause analysis, corrective action tracking, compliance management, training, and AI-assisted analytics through the EHS Copilot feature.
Where Novara Flex excels at configurable frontline workflows, EHS Insight provides the depth of program management that safety managers, EHS directors, and compliance teams need to manage a mature, complex safety operation — including purpose-built US OSHA compliance functionality and cross-program AI analytics.
OSHA Recordkeeping
EHS Insight includes purpose-built OSHA 300/300A/301 support with automated classification guidance and electronic ITA submission. Novara Flex does not prominently feature dedicated OSHA recordkeeping functionality in its platform positioning. Organizations with significant US OSHA compliance requirements should evaluate whether their chosen platform handles these workflows natively or requires supplementary systems.
Investigation Management
EHS Insight provides structured investigation workflows with root cause analysis, contributing factor identification, and corrective action routing. Novara Flex includes incident tracking with the ability to configure follow-up actions, though systematic investigation management is not a primary differentiator of the Novara Flex platform. Some user reviews note that Novara Flex's feature depth is more limited compared to more comprehensive EHS platforms.
Frontline Configurability
This is Novara Flex's strongest area. The platform's form builder is highly regarded for its ease of use, and the ability to customize forms, workflows, and dashboards without developer involvement is frequently cited by users as a core strength. EHS Insight also offers configurable forms and workflows, but organizations whose primary driver is frontline customization flexibility will find Novara Flex's configurability a genuine advantage.
AI Capabilities
EHS Insight includes AI Copilot, which provides natural-language access to safety analytics, trend identification, and leading indicator tracking across the EHS program. Novara is actively developing AI capabilities for the Flex platform following its separation from KPA, with AI integration identified as a near-term roadmap priority. At this stage, the maturity of AI-assisted analytics differs between the two platforms.
Platform Maturity and Roadmap
EHS Insight is a mature EHS management platform with a stable product architecture and roadmap. Novara Flex became an independent company in January 2026, separating from KPA under new CEO Michael Bruns. While existing Novara Flex customers are not expected to experience near-term disruption, the company is in an early chapter as a standalone entity. Organizations evaluating Novara should factor this context into their long-term platform decision.
Novara Flex is the right choice for organizations in construction, manufacturing, utilities, or oil and gas that primarily need a highly configurable frontline workflow tool — particularly those who prioritize ease of form building, inspection management, and mobile reporting over deep programmatic EHS management functionality.
EHS Insight is the right choice for organizations in those same industries and more, that need a comprehensive EHS management platform — one that handles OSHA recordkeeping, incident investigation, compliance management, and AI-assisted analytics alongside frontline reporting. If your safety program requires mature regulatory compliance workflows and cross-program analytics, EHS Insight provides the depth to support it.
Organizations that begin with a frontline-first, configurable workflow tool often reach a point where the program management and regulatory compliance depth required by a serious EHS operation exceeds what that platform was designed to provide. EHS Insight is built for that stage of program maturity.