Intelex is a mature enterprise EHSQ platform, owned by Fortive, built to be the corporate system of record for ISO compliance, health, and quality across many sites. Field1st is the field execution layer: the tool crews and subcontractors actually use to capture at the point of work. Here is an honest look at where each wins.
ISO 45001, 14001, and 9001 auditing across dozens of sites, plus industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemical, quality, and ESG in one relational database.
High-hazard, multi-employer work where charging for every user quietly gates reporting, and the real goal is getting the whole crew, subs included, to capture in the field.
Intelex is bought by corporate EHS and IT to aggregate compliance data across a global footprint and satisfy auditors. It is genuinely strong at that. Field1st is bought by safety and operations to fix what happens at the tailgate: crews avoiding long forms, subcontractors left out, and field data that comes in thin because access is gated behind a paid seat.
The sharpest real difference is commercial, not technical. Intelex licenses per user, so extending safety access to every seasonal hand and subcontractor gets expensive fast. Finance responds by limiting seats, which quietly suppresses the exact frontline reporting a safety program needs. Field1st includes every contractor and sub free, so everyone on the worksite can capture. This page is honest about the rest too, including the things Field1st does not do.
Intelex figures are drawn from public sources and analyst research. Where a figure is reported rather than confirmed by us, it is labeled.
Intelex is a registered trademark of its owner (Fortive Corporation). Comparison compiled July 2026 from public sources and analyst research; Intelex pricing and implementation figures are reported, not confirmed by Field1st. Field1st does not claim occupational health, industrial hygiene, chemical, quality, or ESG capabilities.
If your problem is enterprise compliance breadth, Intelex is a proven choice, and Field1st does not try to do these things.
Unifying ISO 45001, 14001, and 9001 across dozens of international facilities, with rigorous audit trails and document version control built to survive a regulatory review.
Similar Exposure Groups, exposure-limit cross-referencing, medical surveillance, and clinical records with the privacy controls field-first tools intentionally leave out.
Managing a manufacturing defect, a forklift incident, Scope 3 emissions, and an environmental permit in one relational database for C-suite and board reporting.
If your real problem is at the tailgate, not in the boardroom, this is where Field1st earns its place.
Per-seat licensing makes it expensive to give transient subcontractors access, so reporting falls back to paper. With Field1st, every contractor and sub captures through a QR code with no account and no seat.
Voice and photo capture, hands-free, offline, in English or Spanish, instead of a long audit-driven form on a small screen. Field1st reached 100% supervisor adoption at Dominion Energy.
Where enterprise AI analyzes trends on data already collected, HazardID reads a photo in the moment and suggests controls before work starts. Leading intervention, not lagging report.
Intelex is engineered to aggregate and audit data, and it integrates with systems like SAP and Workday. But every dashboard it produces is only as good as the field data going in, and if crews avoid the enterprise forms, that data arrives thin. Field1st is a field execution layer: crews and subcontractors capture by voice and photo, and Field1st sends clean, structured data to enterprise systems through an open API. You keep Intelex as the system of record and finally solve the frontline adoption problem underneath it.
Intelex is a full enterprise EHSQ system of record for ISO compliance, industrial hygiene, occupational health, chemical, and ESG reporting across many sites. Field1st is the field execution layer: voice and photo capture that crews actually use at the point of work.
Not for occupational health, chemical inventory, quality management, or ESG. Field1st does not do those. It can replace Intelex for field safety capture if that is your real problem, or run in front of Intelex as the layer that gets crews and subs to actually report.
Yes. Field1st is a field execution layer and feeds clean field data to enterprise systems through an open API. Keep Intelex as your system of record, integrated with SAP or Workday, and use Field1st to fix the frontline capture the dashboards depend on.
Field1st. Subcontractors capture through a QR code with no account and no paid seat. Intelex uses per-seat licensing, so giving every transient sub full workflow access is costly, which is why field reporting often falls back to paper.
Intelex is reported as per-user pricing (an Essentials tier around $44 to $49 per user per month, 25-user minimum) with implementation fees and rollouts of three to eighteen months. Field1st is one platform with contractors and guests included free, and it deploys in days on a no-code form builder.
Field1st is built for frontline adoption: voice and photo capture, hands-free, offline, in English or Spanish. Intelex has a mobile app, but reviewers describe long audit-driven forms and a steep learning curve that suppress field use.
The clearest difference is who you pay for. Field1st has no modules, and every contractor and sub on the job captures free, so extending safety across a multi-employer site never inflates the bill.
Voice capture, hazard AI, JSAs, inspections, and analytics are one platform. No module menu, no upsell for the feature you need next.
Every contractor, sub, and guest captures by QR at no seat cost. You pay for your own crews and supervisors, not the whole jobsite.
Tell us about your field operation and contractor mix. We'll show you what contractor-free capture looks like, and a JSA built from a photo in under a minute.