Both platforms will get a UK manufacturer off paper for incidents, risk assessments and permits, but they suit different buyers. Evotix, a Scottish-founded EHS platform formerly called SHE Software and now headquartered in Manchester, offers a configurable, per-user-priced suite with its own EvoAI assistive agents, quoted only after a sales conversation. SmartQHSE publishes US dollar pricing from $149 a month, but that tier is single-user, and adding a second person means jumping straight to a custom Enterprise quote from $14,999 a year.
Key pointers
- Evotix (formerly SHE Software) has traded since 1995, founded in East Kilbride, Scotland and now headquartered in Manchester; SmartQHSE says it was founded in 2024.
- SmartQHSE's published price for its Platform Essentials tier, checked live on 29 September 2026, is $149 a month (roughly £112 at the day's exchange rate), for one user only.
- Adding a second named user on SmartQHSE means moving straight to its custom Enterprise plan, priced from $14,999 a year.
- Evotix quotes per user per month based on modules and headcount; get a written quote before comparing totals, because neither vendor's headline figure is a like-for-like team price.
- Both vendors now sell AI features: SmartQHSE's ARIA drafts risk assessments, JSAs and permits; Evotix's EvoAI checks permits, drafts toolbox talks and flags hazards in photos, so treat "AI-native versus established" as a difference of approach, not of AI presence.
- Manufacturing in Great Britain lost an estimated £1.7 billion to workplace injury and ill health in 2023/24, according to HSE, which is a stronger business case for going digital than either vendor's own marketing claims.
- Ask both vendors for a RIDDOR-reportable-incident workflow demo before buying: reporting duties to HSE sit with the employer, not the software.
Why go digital for health and safety records
A health and safety manager still running incident books and paper risk assessments is exposed in three ways: records that cannot be found quickly during an HSE inspection, corrective actions that get logged but not chased to closure, and no early warning when the same near miss keeps happening on the same line. HSE's own manufacturing statistics, which cover Great Britain, put a number on the risk: an estimated 101,000 manufacturing workers a year report work-related ill health, 55,000 sustain a non-fatal injury, and the sector loses an estimated £1.7 billion a year to injury and illness combined. That figure is a stronger reason to move off paper than either vendor's own advertising.
Digitising does not remove your legal duties. Employers, the self-employed and anyone in control of premises still have a statutory duty to report certain incidents to HSE under RIDDOR, whichever system you use to record them. This is not legal advice; consult your legal counsel if you are unsure whether a specific incident is reportable. What a good system does is make that reporting faster to evidence and easier to audit, because the incident, the investigation and the corrective action live in one searchable record instead of three separate paper trails.
For a small manufacturing site, the realistic choice is between a configurable off-the-shelf suite built for exactly this job, and a newer AI-assisted platform that drafts the paperwork for you. Both routes still need someone in your business who owns the rollout, checks the configuration matches your actual processes, and signs off that migrated records are complete.
Evotix and SmartQHSE compared
Evotix and SmartQHSE sit at different points in the market, and the SmartQHSE-authored comparison between the two is worth reading with that authorship in mind. One point in it needs correcting: it lists Evotix as having no embedded AI assistant. Evotix's own site now describes EvoAI, a set of assistive agents that check permits for missing information, draft toolbox talks from risk assessments, summarise occupational health test results and flag hazards in field photos. So the real difference is not AI versus no AI, it is two different AI approaches: SmartQHSE's ARIA generates documents from a prompt, while Evotix's EvoAI checks and drafts inside the existing configured workflow.
| Evotix (Assure) | SmartQHSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded / HQ | 1995 as SHE Software in East Kilbride, Scotland; now headquartered in Manchester | 2024, per SmartQHSE; UK, per SmartQHSE |
| Positioning | Configurable EHS suite, mid-market to enterprise | AI-native HSE platform, SME to enterprise |
| AI features | EvoAI assistive agents (permit checks, toolbox talks, hazard photo analysis, health test summaries) | ARIA generates risk assessments, JSAs, permits, toolbox talks and incident investigations |
| Published pricing | None; contact for pricing, per user per month | Yes, from $149/mo (Platform Essentials, one user) |
| Multi-user pricing | Quoted per head as part of the sales process | Jumps to custom Enterprise, from $14,999/year, for multiple named users |
| Mobile app | AssureGo+, offline-capable | Not independently verified in this research; check with SmartQHSE directly |
| Chemical/substance risk | SDS management, chemical inventory tracking, regulatory reporting, per Evotix's own product page | Country-specific regulator grounding claimed for the UK HSE framework, per SmartQHSE |
| Typical rollout | Weeks to a few months; ask if implementation is included, Evotix's own pricing FAQ treats it as a separate question | Self-serve, minutes for a single user; longer once you add approvals and multiple sites |
Treat the "AI-native versus established" framing in the brief as a genuine trade-off rather than a verdict. SmartQHSE's document generation is faster to try because you can sign up and use it today. Evotix's configurable workflow engine and no-code form builder mean a health and safety manager can adapt the system to match an existing permit process without waiting on a vendor development queue, and its chemical management module is a specific fit for manufacturers handling hazardous substances.
What each one actually costs
Evotix does not publish a price list. Every source checked for this article, including Evotix's own manufacturing page and an independent software review site, confirms pricing is quoted per user per month after a demo, varying with the modules and headcount you choose. Whether implementation is included is worth asking directly: Evotix's own pricing request page lists "Is implementation included in the price?" as one of the questions it expects buyers to ask, so get that answer in writing rather than assuming either way. Ask for the per-user rate at your actual headcount, what is included versus a paid add-on, and how the quote changes if you add or remove a module later.
SmartQHSE does publish prices, in US dollars, checked live on 29 September 2026:
| Plan | Price (USD) | What it covers | Roughly, in GBP |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARIA Free | $0 | AI chat only, no HSE modules, one user | £0 |
| ARIA Plus | $49/mo | Unlimited AI chat, still no HSE modules | ~£37/mo |
| Platform Essentials | $149/mo | 5 AI document generators, incidents, inspections, one user | ~£112/mo |
| ARIA Pro | $199/mo | Maximum AI reasoning, still no HSE modules | ~£150/mo |
| Platform Professional | $499/mo | All 30 AI generators, audits, KPI dashboard, one user | ~£377/mo |
| Enterprise | from $14,999/yr | Unlimited users, SSO, custom quote | ~£11,320/yr |
The GBP column is a rough guide only, based on the GBP/USD rate on 29 September 2026, and is not a price SmartQHSE has quoted. The important detail for a manufacturing health and safety team is the jump between rows. Platform Essentials and Platform Professional are both single-user plans; SmartQHSE's own pricing page states that multi-seat team invitations are an Enterprise feature, priced from $14,999 a year. If your health and safety records need to be visible to more than one person, which is normal for a manufacturer with shift supervisors and a compliance manager, the realistic comparison is Evotix's per-user quote against SmartQHSE's Enterprise quote, not against the advertised $149 headline figure.
Full total cost of ownership for either vendor should also include: staff time to configure risk assessment templates and permit workflows to match your actual processes, time to migrate your live register (current incidents, open risk assessments, in-flight corrective actions) and a decision on how much historical paper archive to digitise, training for shift supervisors who will log incidents on the shop floor, and the cost of the connectivity or tablets you may need if your site does not already have them. Neither vendor publishes these figures; ask for them as part of the quote.
Sources
- Evotix - health and safety management software (EMEA)
- EVOTIX LIMITED company overview (Companies House)
- About Us (Evotix)
- SmartQHSE vs Evotix 2026 - feature-by-feature comparison
- SmartQHSE pricing
- EvoAI - EHS AI technology
- Evotix (SHE Software) review
- EHS software for manufacturing
- EHS&S contractor management software
- EHS Chemical Management Software
- EHS Permit to Work Software
- Pricing Request (Evotix)
- Manufacturing statistics in Great Britain, 2025 (HSE)
- Make a RIDDOR report (HSE)
- Evotix named a Leader in 2025 Green Quadrant report for EHS software
- How to replace paper quality management with a digital QMS for UK manufacturers (Compare the Cloud, a related but separate quality-management decision)
- British Pound softens to near 1.3250 (FXStreet, GBP/USD rate used for the rough conversion above)
