Sotera Health Company (SHC)
Sterilization, lab testing and cobalt-60 production. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 45 of the 145 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
35%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
47%
Employees, annual report
3,000
Leading staffing pattern
Other Support Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now35%
- End of 202744%
- End of 202847%
- End of 203047%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 52%
- Becomes checking a model's work 39%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
The filing states over 3,000 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025 across 62 facilities and counts nothing by business, so the sterilization services lead at other support services, the testing labs take the testing laboratory group and the Cobalt-60 production the basic chemicals group by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 35% now, 44% at the end of 2027, 47% at the end of 2028, 47% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 47% desk work, 19% people work and 34% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 52% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 39% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the filing names 62 facilities worldwide and a U.S. union of about 40 employees.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed over 3,000 employees worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Other Support Services | 55% | Sterigenics runs contract sterilization facilities using ethylene oxide, gamma and electron beam for medical device and other customers, processing services read at other support services by description (c), the largest part of the 62 facilities. |
| Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services | 35% | Nelson Labs provides microbiological and analytical lab testing for medical device and pharmaceutical customers, read at the architectural, engineering and related services group, where testing laboratories sit, by description (c), weighted up for the people a lab carries. |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3251, 3252, 3253, and 3259 only) | 10% | Nordion produces Cobalt-60 sources at its licensed Kanata nuclear facility, radioisotope manufacturing read at the basic chemicals group by description (c), products being 14% of revenue. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 3,000 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025 across 62 facilities; certain employees, mostly outside the United States, are represented by unions or works councils, and one U.S. union covers about 40 employees; an environmental, health and safety team of approximately 50 employees.
What the filing says about AI
9 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its risk factors: the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may increase its cybersecurity risks and those of its third-party business partners.
- “Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: a disruption in the availability or supply of, or increases in the price of, ethylene oxide ("EO"), Cobalt-60 ("Co-60") or our other direct materials, services and supplies, including as a result of geopolitical instability and/or sanctions against Russia by the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and/or the European Union, or s...”
- “All forward-looking statements about our future results of operations or other matters made by us in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as well as our consolidated financial statements and notes, and in our subsequently filed or furnished reports with the SEC, as well as in our press releases and other public communications, are qualified by the risks described below. 14 Table of Contents Risk Fac...”
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may increase our cybersecurity risks and the cybersecurity risks of our third-party business partners.”
- “We may be incorporating AI technologies into our products, services and processes, which may present business, compliance and reputational risks.”
- “The introduction of AI and machine-learning technologies, into internal processes, third-party services and/or new and existing offerings may result in new or expanded risks and liabilities, including due to enhanced governmental or regulatory scrutiny, litigation, compliance issues, ethical concerns, confidentiality or security risks, as well as other factors that could adversely affect our bu...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20259median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 3,000 | 2026-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,000 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 3,000 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 3,000 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 3,000 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 3,000 | 2021-03-09 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts nothing by business, so the split among sterilization services, lab testing and isotope production is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
- Contract sterilization has no group of its own on the site and is read at other support services, flagged.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001822479-26-000015, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Sotera Health Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 35% now and 47% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Sotera Health Company's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Sotera Health Company employ?
- 3,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Sotera Health Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Other Support Services; by those patterns the work is about 47% desk work, 19% people work and 34% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Sotera Health Company's annual report say about AI?
- 9 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 9 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on November 9, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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