Novara Names Winners of Annual 2026 Flex Impact Award at Connect Live at Connect Live
Eight organizations recognized for measurable gains in safety reporting, training, and risk management
DENVER — Oct. 29, 2026 — Novara, the leader in safety and operational risk management software, today announced the winners of its 2026 Flex Impact Awards at Connect Live 2026, its annual user conference. The program recognizes customers who use Novara’s Flex platform to identify hazards earlier, train their workforces, and resolve issues before they become incidents.
“The Flex Impact Awards celebrate safety teams that do the hard part: getting people to report what they see, closing every investigation, and making training stick,” said Laura Miles, Director of Customer Success and Implementation at Novara. “These organizations turned Novara Flex into the way their teams spot and stop risk every day. Their results show what happens when a whole organization owns safety, not just the safety department.”
This year’s winners span construction, energy, oil and gas, utilities, agribusiness, and food production. Their collective results include investigation times cut from more than 100 days to under 15, training completion raised from 30% to 94%, and more than 4,000 hazard reports filed by field crews in less than a year.
2026 Flex Impact Award Winners
- Rookie of the Year: Caturus Energy
- Rookie of the Year: Consolidated Grain and Barge Co.
- Training Excellence Award: Audubon Companies
- Safety Culture Champion Award: Utilitra
- Innovation in Application Award: ERock
- Platform Mastery Award: Emery Sapp & Sons
- Sustained Impact Award: Seaboard Foods
- Program Excellence Award: Hooper Corporation
Recognition at Connect Live 2026
The awards were presented at a luncheon on Oct. 29 during Connect Live 2026, held Oct. 27-29 in Denver. The conference brought together customers from construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, and other high-risk industries for sessions on preventing serious injuries and fatalities, managing contractor and visitor risk, and the role of AI in safety programs.
The winners’ results reflect the conference’s focus: catching risk earlier and following through until each issue is resolved.
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Novara provides leading safety, operational risk management, and sustainability software that empowers organizations to identify and resolve issues before they become incidents. Through the Flex and Risk Management Center platforms, Novara helps organizations manage operational risk proactively with a system they can configure to fit their operations, data that unifies risk and safety intelligence, and tools that increase workforce participation. Novara’s combination of industry-leading AI-powered software and training puts people and safety first while protecting critical operations.
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