How Sandvik drove cultural change around safety through technological innovations

Learn how Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions transformed its global EHS culture with clearer, more accessible reporting that strengthens visibility and engagement across diverse operations.

Consistent safety process

98%

Of hazards identified are closed-out

Rising reporting performance

80%

Increase in average monthly reporting score

Real injury reduction

86%

Drop in recordable injury rates

Built-in compliance

98%

Site-based completion of the EHS plan

Company-wide adoption

362

Separate elements across health & well-being programs at every location

At a Glance

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions operates across diverse, high‑risk environments where employees work with heavy machinery, drilling technologies and underground or remote industrial settings. As Sandvik grew, their spreadsheet-based system struggled to keep up asand reporting became more complicated. While the spreadsheets were only able to track outcomes, SMR soon required a wider, more holistic view of data to support varied reporting needs at sites of differing maturity, while creating a consistent foundation for visibility and improvement.

Evotix enabled Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions to move beyond spreadsheet‑driven reporting and adopt a modern EHS platform that supports both management‑system requirements and deep cultural engagement. With a single, accessible system for capturing incidents, hazards, leading indicators and qualitative insights, teams gained a clearer, more holistic view of EHS performance across global operations. Evotix’s flexibility allowed Sandvik to tailor forms, processes and data structures to its diverse maturity levels, while reinforcing the behaviours and conversations needed to strengthen EHS culture.

About Sandvik

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions (SMR) is a division of Sandvik, a global engineering group with more than 43,000 employees worldwide. SMR spans eight product areas and serves customers across mining, rock excavation, technologies and services, delivering solutions that rely on strong EHS performance and transparent, meaningful reporting.

Embedding a Sustainable EHS Mindset Across Sandvik’s Worldwide Operations

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a global business with more than 43,000 employees, delivering equipment, technologies and services across drilling, cutting, loading, hauling and exploration. Their teams work in complex, high‑risk industrial environments where safety, quality and operational discipline are essential to maintaining performance and protecting people. As a company committed to continuous improvement, Sandvik views EHS as both a cultural foundation and a strategic driver, strengthening transparency, decision‑making and individual accountability across sites. Their long‑term ambition is to build an EHS mindset that supports behavioural change, encourages meaningful conversations and ensures every employee feels responsible for creating a safer workplace.

Improving EHS culture across a diverse organization with significant differences in EHS maturity is a challenging task, but we knew with the right tool, we could transform EHS data into meaningful metrics that employees understand and relate to.

Julie-Ann ClarkGlobal EHS Data Manager, Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions

EHS Visibility Challenges Across a Complex, Global Industrial Operation

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions operates across highly varied and technically demanding environments, where drilling, cutting and heavy machinery create inherent risk and require dependable, consistent EHS practices. Yet prior to Evotix, the division relied heavily on spreadsheet‑based reporting—an approach that became increasingly complicated as teams grew and the organisation sought clearer insight across diverse maturity levels. Without a unified system, data was difficult to interpret, behavioural trends remained hidden, and it was challenging to drive consistent accountability across regions and product areas. Sandvik needed a more holistic way to capture both quantitative and qualitative information—something that could illuminate real conditions on the ground and support meaningful conversations about safety.

The spreadsheets were about numbers. But it’s not just about what gets measured; it’s what gets talked about that changes things.

Stuart EvansGlobal EHS Vice President, Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions

Transforming EHS Reporting Into Meaningful Action and Cultural Change

Evotix enabled Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions to evolve from spreadsheet‑based reporting to a flexible, intuitive platform that supports both daily workflows and long‑term cultural change. By capturing qualitative metrics alongside quantitative data, insights can now drive meaningful conversations. The system gives frontline teams a clearer, more accessible way to participate in EHS.

Workflows have also become more consistent across regions and product areas. Evotix’s configurability allows Sandvik to tailor forms and processes to differing maturity levels without sacrificing global alignment. As adoption grows, reporting shifts from a numbers exercise to a shared practice embedded in daily operations, strengthening transparency and reinforcing ownership while helping Sandvik build its EHS mindset.

We have certainly pushed the ‘system’ boundaries in relation to customizing and developing other components to suit our ever-changing needs. The ability to provide a system that allows this degree of flexibility without compromise to stability is testament to Evotix’s experience and knowledge in the field of EHS systems.

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions

Meaningful EHS Improvements Through Configurable Reporting Built for Mining Complexity

Evotix gave Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions the flexibility to adapt EHS processes to a wide range of operational environments and maturity levels across its global mining portfolio. By moving beyond spreadsheets to a configurable, unified platform, Sandvik achieved clearer visibility, stronger participation and a more consistent way to turn reporting into informed action. This adaptability helped frontline teams engage more confidently, supported leaders in driving accountability and enabled the organisation to advance the long‑term EHS mindset it had been working toward.

Key Improvements

TRIFR dropped from 19.6 to 2.7, and LTIFR reached 0.67.

close‑out rates increased from 59% to 98%.

reporting increased by 200%, reflecting deeper employee engagement.

88% of employees now rate EHS culture as strong or very strong.

over 360 wellbeing program elements tracked and monitored through Evotix.

monthly reporting scores improved by 80% over five years.

Why Evotix?

Evotix gave Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions a flexible, enterprise‑grade system that could support both structured EHS management and meaningful cultural change across a global organisation. The platform enables Sandvik to move beyond spreadsheet‑based reporting and bring quantitative and qualitative safety data together—supporting transparency, shared ownership and stronger decision‑making at every level.

To date, Evotix has helped Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions:

At the end of the day, our responsibility is making sure everyone goes home safe to their families.

Victor CruzDOT Compliance Officer

What’s Ahead?

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions will continue advancing its long‑term ambition to strengthen EHS awareness, ownership and behavioural consistency across its global operations. As the organisation evolves, Evotix’s flexibility will play a key role in supporting new programs, aligning processes across regions and helping leaders maintain visibility into both leading and lagging indicators. Sandvik plans to further expand how it uses the platform to support health and wellbeing initiatives, deepen qualitative reporting and reinforce the conversations that underpin its EHS mindset.

By building on a configurable system that can grow with the business, Sandvik aims to embed EHS even more deeply into daily work—making it easier for teams to contribute, for leaders to guide improvement, and for the organisation to continue strengthening the culture and performance it has worked hard to achieve.

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