Built to publish a price, not chase a demo.
CrewSafety is workforce compliance software for skilled-trade crews that tracks a person's certifications, training, and renewal deadlines. Novara Flex, the product formerly sold as KPA Flex before KPA spun its industrial-safety software business off into the independent company Novara in January 2026, is a broader EHS platform for safety processes, risk management, and incident tracking across an organization. If you're evaluating Novara Flex (or still know it as KPA Flex) for a GC, a specialty trade, or a crane and rigging operation, here's the real difference before you decide.
If your team already runs its safety program through Novara Flex, this isn't an argument to rip that out. Broad EHS process coverage and credential tracking are different jobs. The question worth asking is which tool is actually built for tracking who's certified, when that expires, and whether your file would survive an audit today, not just which platform covers the most ground.
Two different starting points
Novara Flex: a broad EHS platform
Novara Flex (formerly KPA Flex, now under the independent company Novara as of January 2026) covers safety processes, risk management, and incident tracking across an organization, and claims over 10,000 companies use it. A person's certifications, training history, and renewal deadlines aren't the organizing structure the product is built around, they're one piece of a much wider program.
CrewSafety: built around the person
The top-level record is a person, not a program. Open one and get their whole standing at once: what they're qualified to do, what expires and when, what they've been through, and what has to happen next. The renewal clock belongs to the credential itself, so it keeps running whether or not anyone thinks to check.
Novara Flex: every path leads to a demo request
Novara Flex (formerly KPA Flex) doesn't publish pricing anywhere on its site (novara.com, novara.com/ehs-software/, checked 2026-08-24). A free trial is offered, but the pricing pages themselves route to "request a demo" or "request a quote" forms (info.novara.com, go.novara.com). There's no number to compare against without giving them your contact information first.
CrewSafety: one flat number, published
CrewSafety publishes every tier's price on /pricing, no demo request required. The Growth tier covers 50 profiles at a flat $649 a month. Novara Flex (formerly KPA Flex) doesn't publish pricing anywhere on its site, every path leads to "request a demo." CrewSafety's full pricing, all four paid tiers, is on /pricing right now, no form required.
Program-wide safety coverage
A broad EHS platform is genuinely useful for organizations that need one system covering incident tracking, risk management, and safety processes across many sites and functions. Novara Flex is built for exactly that scope, and 10,000+ companies use it by its own public claim.
A record that knows its own expiry date
Credential risk doesn't announce itself the way an open incident does: nothing looks wrong on the morning before a card lapses, and the failure arrives on a date nobody was watching. CrewSafety runs the clock on every credential and speaks up weeks before it lapses. Pricing follows headcount rather than a program-wide license, and every tier's price is published.
A number no demo call could have quoted you.
Nobody filled out a request-a-demo form to make this exist. It's computed from every person's credential dates and recomputed as those dates move, which is why it can name the twelve cards that have already expired. It's also why the price to see it is a published number, not a call.
Questions
What people ask before switching, or adding CrewSafety
Is Novara Flex the same as KPA Flex?
Yes. KPA split its industrial-safety software business, the product known as KPA Flex, into an independent company called Novara in January 2026. The product is now marketed as Novara Flex. It's the same product line under a new company name, not a different tool.
Is CrewSafety a replacement for Novara Flex?
Not for the broad EHS process coverage Novara Flex offers, incident tracking, risk management, and safety-process workflows across an organization. CrewSafety is narrower and deeper on one thing: is this specific person, on this specific crew, actually qualified and current on every credential they need today. Some crews use Novara Flex or a similar EHS platform for the wider program and CrewSafety for the credential record specifically.
How does CrewSafety's pricing compare to Novara Flex?
CrewSafety publishes every tier's price on /pricing, no demo request required; the Growth tier is a flat $649 a month for 50 profiles. Novara Flex (formerly KPA Flex) doesn't publish pricing anywhere on its site (novara.com, novara.com/ehs-software/, checked 2026-08-24). Every path, including the free trial, leads to a request-a-demo form (info.novara.com, go.novara.com).
Does CrewSafety track OSHA incidents and safety processes like Novara Flex?
CrewSafety logs OSHA incidents, but its center of gravity is the person: certifications, training history, and renewal deadlines. Novara Flex is built to cover safety processes and risk management more broadly across an organization. If your crew's core problem is credentials lapsing without anyone catching it, CrewSafety is built around exactly that question.
Why would a crew switch from Novara Flex to CrewSafety, or add it alongside Novara Flex?
Usually because a credential lapsed without anyone catching it before an audit or a site walk-on. CrewSafety runs the clock on every credential and flags what's expiring weeks out, and every tier's price is published up front instead of behind a demo request.
Can I see Novara Flex's pricing without requesting a demo?
Not on Novara Flex's own site. novara.com and novara.com/ehs-software/ (checked 2026-08-24) offer a free trial but no published price; the request-a-demo and request-a-quote forms (info.novara.com, go.novara.com) are the only paths to pricing. CrewSafety publishes all four paid tiers on /pricing right now, no form required.
You don't have to decide this from a demo call.
Load your crew's real certifications and see what comes back. If nothing turns up expiring, you've spent twenty minutes confirming your current setup is fine, which is worth knowing too. Five profiles, free forever. No credit card, no demo request.