Ken Lupo, Chief Technology Officer at VelocityEHS, sits down with Matt Airhart, CEO of VelocityEHS, on this episode of Rewiring Risk to unpack why so many companies are still stuck on outdated, disconnected EHS systems, and what it really means to modernize.
What does it actually take to fix a fragmented, decades-old approach to environmental health and safety? Ken Lupo, Chief Technology Officer at VelocityEHS, sits down with Matt Airhart, CEO of VelocityEHS, on this episode of Rewiring Risk to unpack why so many companies are still stuck on outdated, disconnected EHS systems, and what it really means to modernize.
Matt traces his path into EHS back to his early years in unautomated chemical and steel manufacturing, and explains why VelocityEHS's mission to make workplaces safer and more sustainable resonates so deeply across the company. Ken and Matt dig into the hidden costs of disconnected systems, why change management (not technology) is usually the hardest part of modernization, and how AI - when built responsibly, kept private, and never allowed to make decisions on its own - is starting to transform everything from injury prevention to ergonomics to reporting. They close with a rapid-fire round covering the biggest myths in EHS modernization and where the industry is headed next.
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"It's not just the software, it's how we implement it, how we service them afterward, how we help them discover what they can do next within the platform. We're a results company. We're not a software company.”
"I spent the first six or seven years of my career in some pretty dirty, unautomated, high-risk industries... our mission is to make workplaces safer and more sustainable, and it has a massive, measurable impact on injuries around the world."
“Everything we do is designed to put what AI sees in front of a person, and that person can either agree with it, modify it, or disagree with it. We never have any decisions happening in a black box."
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