ASSP Safety 2026: New Novara Form Agent AI converts paper forms into EHS workflows

Novara, a company specializing in AI-powered EHS, exhibited its new Form Agent at the Safety 2026 Conference & Expo.

The show was hosted by The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) June 15-17 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

Form Agent is a new AI capability in Novara Flex that converts paper forms, PDFs, and scanned documents into functional digital EHS workflows in minutes. It is the latest addition to Novara’s growing portfolio of AI capabilities designed to help organizations reduce risk, improve safety performance, and make more informed decisions faster.

Digitize workflow & compliance forms faster

EHS teams managing complex, multi-site operations routinely lose hours rebuilding safety inspection forms, corrective action workflows, and compliance checklists, field by field. A backlog of form creation delays standardization and can cause more conflict when an incident or near miss occurs.

Form Agent addresses this challenge by cutting down time spent setting up Flex and Forms, so Flex can be deployed faster.

“A complicated form that might take at least an hour or two to digitize on your own can now be done in a minute or two with Form Agent,” said Jade Hendrix, Novara CPO. “This new AI capability brings proactive safety program management to a new level by saving countless hours for customers, shortening their implementation time with their field teams, and getting them to collect data faster.”

This release is the newest addition to Novara’s Flex AI suite, which embeds workflow-native intelligence across safety inspections, compliance processes, hazard detection, and regulatory guidance. Form Agent extends that capability directly into form digitization and implementation.

“This [will] be a game changer for our team,” said Flex customer Gennesis Rosas, Phase 3 Energy & Power Solutions Electrical and Instrumentation Designer. "As a Flex Administrator, I spend a significant amount of time recreating existing paper forms, client forms, and spreadsheets into digital workflows. Being able to upload a PDF or image and have AI generate a draft form would dramatically reduce setup time and help organizations launch new processes much faster.

Form Agent combines AI-powered document recognition, workflow automation, and human oversight to help safety teams digitize forms faster while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and control. Features include:

• Analyze and Build: Form Agent analyzes uploaded PDFs, scanned documents, and image files and automatically generates a Flex-compatible digital form, extracting fields, sections, checkboxes, dates, and signature lines.
• Refine with AI: Teams can refine any new or existing forms through plain-language conversation, reducing form digitization from hours to minutes.
• Review with Confidence: Confidence indicators and side-by-side comparisons make AI outputs transparent and auditable, so safety professionals can still control the end result.
• Built for Safety: Form Agent is designed for EHS use cases, not generic document conversion, with built-in recognition of safety inspection, incident reporting, and compliance checklist structures.

Safety Trekr AI, ASSP/ANSI standards countent integrated into Flex

Through its product partnership with ASSP, Novara recently integrated Safety Trekr AI into Flex. The integration provides contextual answers to safety and compliance questions using content sourced from ASSP’s Safety Professionals Handbook and ANSI standards.

Novara also recently acquired Ensogo, an AI-native sustainability and ESG management platform. Novara said the acquisition expands its presence in Canada, strengthening its expertise in sustainability management and supporting the company’s broader growth strategy across industries, including manufacturing, mining, energy, oil & gas, construction and other operationally-intensive sectors. The acquisition also adds specialized agentic AI expertise to the company’s engineering team and accelerates the development of autonomous AI capabilities across the broader Novara platform.

Novara said together, these investments reflect its broader strategy to equip safety, compliance, and operational leaders with AI-powered capabilities that reduce administrative burden, surface actionable insights, help organizations proactively manage risk across their operations and drive profitability.