DALLAS, Nov. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ISN, the global leader in contractor and supplier information management services, announced 20+ years of partnership with Dow, a leading materials science company. Since 2003, Dow has leveraged ISNetworld® to improve its contractor management program while navigating organizational changes, evolving industry standards, increased operational risks, and new opportunities for contractor alignment. Today, Dow manages contractors across 30+ sites and multiple business units in ISNetworld, highlighting the scalability of the platform and ISN’s tenured Hiring Client relationships.
“Maintaining effective contractor management practices across a global organization requires a standardized, adaptable approach,” said Raul Alvarado, Senior EH&S Delivery Leader at Dow. “For more than 20 years, ISNetworld tools and services have helped reinforce consistent processes, advance contractor engagement, and support continuous improvement across Dow operations.”
How Has ISN Strengthened Contractor Management at Dow?
Headquartered in Midland, Michigan, the company first implemented ISNetworld for its Dow Pipeline business unit before expanding the platform across operations throughout the United States and Canada. Since then, the partnership continued through Dow expansion and growth initiatives and the ongoing evolution of ISN’s contractor management solutions.
Throughout the past 20 years, working closely with contractors remained a cornerstone of the partnership. Dow and ISN have co-hosted annual contractor forums, creating opportunities for open communication, feedback, and relationship building across Dow’s contractor network.
Dow leverages ISNetworld to:
- Deliver contractor onboarding and Dow’s Diamond Learning curriculum through the Online Training tool
- Verify individual contractor worker qualification statuses with QuickCheck®
- Gain insights into its contractors’ health, safety, and environmental program implementations and safety cultures through RAVS 360™ and CultureSight®
- Manage site-specific contractor work hours and additional statistical information through SiteTracker
- Increase visibility into subcontractor information through SubTracker
By managing onboarding, worker qualification, EH&S program insights, work-hour tracking, and subcontractor visibility within a single, standardized platform, Dow gains a holistic view of contractor risk and performance across its global operations, rather than reconciling data across multiple disconnected systems.
How Is the Partnership Evolving?
Dow continues to evolve its contractor management program through the ongoing implementation of ISNetworld tools and services, including CultureSight in 2025, and onboarding additional operating sites in the platform, most recently Wilmington, Delaware in July of 2026.
“Dow’s continued reduction in contractor incidents over the years reflects what is possible when a global organization commits to a best-in-class contractor management approach,” said Kim Holly, Chief Business Development Officer at ISN. “ISN is proud to have supported Dow in achieving measurable safety improvements throughout our partnership and looks forward to continuing to advance worker safety together.”
To learn how ISN helps global organizations reduce contractor risk and strengthen safety performance, visit isn.com.
About ISN
ISN is the global leader in contractor and supplier information management, with more than 25 years of experience connecting more than 900 Hiring Clients in capital-intensive industries with 90,000+ active contractors and suppliers to promote safety, health, and sustainability in the workplace. ISN’s brands include ISNetworld®, a global online contractor and supplier management platform, Transparency-One®, a responsible sourcing platform built to bring transparency to supply chain management, and Empower®, a worker-level app built to keep workers moving forward.
ISN has 13 offices around the globe which provide award-winning support and training for its customers in more than 85 countries. ISN takes pride in leading worldwide efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of contractor and supplier management systems and in serving as a world-class forum for sharing industry best practices, benchmarking performance, providing data insights among its members, and helping decision makers, including board members, ensure contractor and supplier risk is assessed and monitored. For more information, visit isn.com.
About Dow
Dow is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility, and consumer applications. Its global breadth, asset integration and scale, customer-focused innovation, and leading business positions enable the Company to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. Dow operates manufacturing sites in 29 countries and employs approximately 34,600 people. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, visit dow.com.
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