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NSC Safety Congress 2026: Find Us at Booth 1656
TL;DR: EHSTracks is at Booth 1656 at the 2026 NSC Safety Congress & Expo, Indiana Convention Center, September 14–16. We’re demonstrating the Safety, Fire, and FLEX modules — one inspection from a finding in the field to an audit-ready report — plus how SPCC, SWPPP, RCRA, and LDAR live in the same platform. Expo floor hours are 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Wednesday. If you’d rather talk without the floor noise, book a private demo.
EHSTracks will be exhibiting at the 2026 NSC Safety Congress & Expo in Indianapolis from September 14 through 16, at Booth 1656. The National Safety Council expects more than 12,500 safety, health, and environmental professionals and roughly 1,100 exhibiting companies at the Indiana Convention Center this year.
Eleven hundred booths is a lot of booths. By hour three of day one, most of them have blurred into the same sentence about visibility and culture. So rather than write another one of those, here’s what we’re putting on the screen at 1656, and what we think is worth asking us — or anyone else on that floor.
This post is for facility EHS managers, safety coordinators, and environmental leads who are still running inspections on paper, in spreadsheets, or across a handful of systems that don’t talk to each other.
Table of Contents
- What we’re demonstrating at Booth 1656
- Safety, Fire, and FLEX
- Bringing the environmental side into the same platform
- What “inspection days into inspection hours” actually means
- Three questions worth asking any vendor this week
- Expo hours and how to find us
- FAQ
What we’re demonstrating at Booth 1656
One workflow, run end to end, on a phone and a laptop side by side.
An inspector opens a route and walks to an extinguisher. They answer the questions. One answer comes back “No.”
That “No” is the whole demo. By the time the inspector reaches the next point, the finding is assigned, dated, and sitting in front of the person who has to fix it. Nobody wrote it down twice. Nobody had to decide whether it was worth writing up at all.
The payoff shows up months later, when an auditor asks what happened to that finding and the answer takes four seconds instead of two days. That’s the part that’s hard to put in a brochure and takes about ninety seconds to show.
Safety, Fire, and FLEX
Three modules, one platform, and the reason we picked these three for an NSC crowd.
Safety covers the general inspection work most facilities are already doing badly on paper: eyewash and safety showers, machine guarding, walking-working surfaces, guardrails, housekeeping, PPE stations, whatever your program calls for.
Fire handles fire protection equipment against the standards that govern it — extinguishers, suppression systems, hydrants, alarm panels, exit hardware. NFPA 10 requires a monthly extinguisher inspection, which across a large site is a lot of small, forgettable checks on a hard cadence. A missed month is invisible until somebody goes looking for it, and by then it’s usually a fire marshal doing the looking.
FLEX exists because every facility has something the standard modules don’t name. Dock levelers. Crane hooks. Ladder cages. A weekly walkdown one plant manager invented in 2011 that genuinely works. FLEX gives that program the same standing as the regulated ones, so the best idea at your site stops living in a notebook and starts counting as evidence.
Bringing the environmental side into the same platform
Most facilities we talk to have a split: safety uses one system, environmental uses another, and the two teams meet in a shared drive.
EHSTracks runs SPCC, stormwater/SWPPP, RCRA waste, and LDAR alongside the safety inspections. One system to learn, one place to look, one set of records when somebody asks for them.
That matters more on the environmental side because the deadlines are less forgiving. An LDAR leak detected under 40 CFR Part 60 carries a 5-day first repair attempt and a 15-day completion deadline. Waste containers have accumulation limits the calendar enforces whether or not anyone is watching. Stormwater inspections run against a window that opens when the weather says so, not when your schedule does.
A form app will hold whatever due date somebody typed into it — and it holds an empty one just as calmly. What we’d rather show you than describe is what it feels like when the deadline isn’t something a person has to remember.
If the environmental programs are the reason you’re shopping, say so when you stop by and we’ll start there.
What “inspection days into inspection hours” actually means
It’s a claim, so here’s what’s behind it.
Three things eat the time in a paper or spreadsheet program, and none of them are the inspection:
- Re-entry. Someone writes findings on a clipboard, then types them into a spreadsheet that evening. On a large route that’s often as long as the walk.
- Chasing. Findings get emailed to whoever owns the fix. Nobody can say which of last quarter’s findings are still open without opening six files and making two phone calls.
- Report assembly. An auditor asks for a period of records and somebody spends two days rebuilding it from scans, emails, and memory.
That’s the overhead of running a compliance program on tools that were never built to run one, and it’s where the days actually go. It’s also why our demo is one continuous workflow instead of a feature tour — the only thing worth proving is that the overhead disappears.
The walking still takes as long as it takes. Everything wrapped around the walking is what collapses.
Three questions worth asking any vendor this week
Take these to Booth 1656 and to every other booth you visit. They produce different answers from different vendors, which is the only kind of question worth asking on a show floor.
1. Does the complete inspection work offline, or just the form? “We support offline” is the least reliable sentence in enterprise software sales. Push on it, because this failure never shows up in a demo. It shows up six months in, when an inspector loses a morning’s work in a tank farm and quietly goes back to carrying paper.
2. When a finding is created, does anything start a clock? If the due date is just a field somebody types into, then every safeguard you’re buying rests on the process discipline of a team that will eventually be short-staffed.
3. Can it produce the exact report your last audit asked for, while I’m standing here? Not a dashboard. The report. If a vendor can’t run it live at the booth, that’s information.
We wrote the longer version of this in What EHS software do you actually need?, and there’s a field-tested checklist in our guide to mobile EHS apps for field inspections. Both are worth ten minutes on the flight in.
Expo hours and how to find us
| Day | Expo floor hours |
|---|---|
| Monday, September 14 | 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, September 15 | 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday, September 16 | 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Hours are per the NSC expo schedule; check the official site for any last-minute changes.
Booth 1656, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis.
Two ways to do this:
- Walk up. Bring a real inspection problem from your facility. The demo is more useful when it’s running on something that resembles your site than on our sample data.
- Schedule a private demo. Wednesday closes at 1 p.m. and the good slots go first. If you want dedicated time with a specific program — SPCC, a fire inspection route, a custom FLEX build — book it ahead.
Not making it to Indianapolis? Get in touch and we’ll set up the same walkthrough remotely.
If your team is still completing safety inspections on paper, spreadsheets, or systems that don’t talk to each other, bring us the worst example you’ve got. We’ll show you what it looks like on the other side.
Booth 1656. September 14–16. Indianapolis. See you there.
FAQ
Where is EHSTracks at the 2026 NSC Safety Congress & Expo?
EHSTracks is at Booth 1656 on the expo floor at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The expo runs September 14–16, 2026, with floor hours of 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
What will EHSTracks be demonstrating at NSC 2026?
The Safety, Fire, and FLEX modules, shown as one continuous workflow: an inspection completed in the field, a finding that assigns and dates itself, and an audit-ready report at the end of it. We’ll also show SPCC, SWPPP, RCRA, and LDAR running on the same platform.
Can EHSTracks handle inspections that don’t fit a standard template?
Yes — that’s what the FLEX module is for. It lets facilities build inspection programs around equipment or processes unique to their operation, and run them with the same rigor, tracking, and reporting as the regulated programs.
Does the mobile app work without a signal on the plant floor?
Yes. Inspectors complete a full inspection with no connectivity — not a stripped-down version of one — and the records are waiting in the system when they’re back in range. Tank farms, basements, and the back half of a plant are the normal case, not the exception.
How do I book a demo instead of stopping by the booth?
Use the private demonstration scheduler to reserve dedicated time during the show, or contact us to arrange a remote walkthrough if you aren’t attending NSC 2026 in person.