John McWade, CSP
President, EHS Technologies LLC. He designed and built EHSTEC.
Background
John McWade is an environmental, health and safety practitioner with more than seven years of professional EHS experience across general industry and construction — the two regulatory worlds this kind of software has to serve, and the reason EHSTEC treats them as genuinely different rather than as one generic "safety" domain.
He founded EHS Technologies LLC in 2023 and designed and built EHSTEC himself. That shapes the product more than anything else: the person deciding how an incident investigation should behave, or what a readiness state means, has run safety programs rather than only written code.
Credentials and education
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP) — the certification awarded by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals. It requires a bachelor's degree, several years of professional safety experience, passing an examination, and recertification on a recurring cycle.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management.
- Completed OSHA #500, the Trainer Course in OSHA Standards for Construction. This is course completion. OSHA Outreach trainer authorization is a separate, time-limited status that must be renewed, and nothing on this page should be read as a claim of current authorization.
Professional involvement
John participates in the professional safety community through the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and the National Safety Council.
To be explicit, because this is a common misreading: participation in a professional body is not an endorsement. Neither ASSP nor the National Safety Council endorses, certifies, sponsors or is affiliated with EHSTEC or EHS Technologies LLC, and neither does OSHA.
Why he built EHSTEC
The motivation is unglamorous and specific: help people go home safely, while giving the companies they work for a realistic way to manage compliance and reduce risk.
In his view, safety software tends to fail in one of two directions. It is either a filing cabinet that records what already happened, or it is so heavy that the people doing the work quietly stop using it. EHSTEC is built around the belief that a safety system earns its place by making the next action obvious — the finding that became a corrective action, the credential about to lapse, the asset that should not be in service — rather than by producing more paperwork.
Content he reviews
John reviews EHSTEC's safety and regulatory guides for technical accuracy. This is internal review by the practitioner behind the company, not independent third-party review, and the editorial standards page explains exactly what that does and does not mean.