In this episode, COO Ulrike Hodges welcomes Melanie Nuce, the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at GS1 US, an organization that develops and maintains global standards for business communication, and a collaborator to SafeTraces. Melanie leads a team that investigates new technologies, partnerships, and business opportunities to increase the relevance and reach of GS1 Standards worldwide. Ulrike and Melanie discuss persistent track and trace issues within the supply chain, in particular GS1’s experience leveraging emerging technologies to drive business process efficiencies and innovation.

CEO Erik Malmstrom speaks with Ron McMahan, Director of Business Development and Innovative Solutions at SGS Galson, the largest occupational health lab in the world, with whom SafeTraces is collaborating to deliver the SafeTraces veriDART™ solution. For over 30 years, Ron has been at the forefront of applying burgeoning technology to real-time applications and currently leads a team in developing innovative ways to make sampling simpler. They discuss his experience in the indoor air arena, the changes he has seen in the EHS space as it pertains to new technologies, and some of the solutions SGS is providing to help protect spaces from COVID-19.

For this episode, CEO Erik Malmstrom speaks with Lisa Kay, the COO of Health and Safety at NV5, with whom SafeTraces is collaborating to deliver the SafeTraces veriDART™ solution. Lisa leads a team of high-performing environmental, health, and safety (EHS) consultants with the mission of making businesses cleaner, stronger, and safer. She sheds light on NV5’s EHS practice, her perspective on the impacts of COVID-19 on the built environment, and the kind of work NV5 has been doing to help clients navigate challenges since the pandemic began.

For the second episode, CEO Erik Malmstrom connects with Glenn Fishler, who was a Board Certified Industrial Hygienist for 32 years (1985-2017) and now serves as Board Director for McMillen Jacobs Associates and Citadel EHS, and as an executive advisor for SafeTraces. They discuss the ongoing pandemic and Glenn offers his perspective on airborne virus transmission as it relates to the environmental, health, and safe space.

Welcome to the first episode of the SafeTraces podcast! SafeTraces CEO Erik Malmstrom speaks with veriDART advisor John Martin - a leading industrial hygienist and aerosol scientist - about airborne transmission of COVID-19, engineering and HVAC controls, and the urgent need for data-driven validation and verification solutions.