Valerie Steele

GeoVentures Group, LLC provides the Geoaware® Services Platform powered by Vizsafe, which delivers smart, geolocated incident reporting, mapping and visual communications. Vizsafe’s Geoaware® solution has been SAFETY Act Designated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and plays a vital role in the smart safety, operations and management at some of the world’s most valuable facilities.

As an Industrial Hygienist and regulatory expert with a heavy science background, I provide safety, health, and science litigation strategy to law firms and risk assessment methodologies to other corporations such as Zurich Insurance Group. My experience includes over 20 years performing industrial hygiene and safety programs implementation, federal investigations, regulatory enforcement and assessments in the commercial high tech semiconductor industry and the U.S. government national labs dealing with specific hazards such as chemical, biological, nano-engineered particles, carcinogens, heavy metals, heavy mechanized equipment, lasers, particle accelerators, cryogenic/thermal hazards and industrial ventilation. Companies include Intel Corporation, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, Paducah and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plants, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Kansas City Plant, Lawrence Livermore, Fermi and Argonne National Labs. Professional projects include representing a national laboratory as the subject matter expert and ground-up implementation of the Department of Energy’s 10CFR851 Worker Safety and Health Program Rule, developing protocol for executive management engagement of safety and health at the staff level, and creating risk assessment methodologies for safety, health and security programs.