Who am I?
As an engineer, I moved very quickly into the fascinating world of quality, safety and the environment. Starting out as ‘safety officer’, I then went through the whole transformation into welfare law, standards and prevention adviser. After 20 interesting years working for a private company, I joined external services for prevention and protection at work: first Encare, then Mensura.
At Mensura I put my experience in a wide range of companies and business sectors to good use – it’s an extremely exciting job. Whatever the project, my aim is to assist clients in the best possible way – to advise them and, first and foremost, to provide them with practical solutions.
What have I learned in all this time? One piece of good advice: Keep it simple!
I do the same in my free time, when I enjoy comics, movies, board games, quizzes, travelling, visiting museums and my family.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish."J.R.R. Tolkien
Expertise
As a result of the roles I have held as management supervisor and internal prevention adviser, I am very familiar with the way internal prevention departments work and also how Committees for Prevention and Protection at Work operate.
My experience as an external prevention adviser spans various industrial sectors: metal, automotive, chemical, food, logistics, concrete, etc.
At Mensura, you can come to me for projects relating to:
- wellbeing audits
- investigations into serious work accidents
- risk analysis for machinery and electrical systems
- commissioning work tools and machines
- drafting CE technical files
- SEVESO legislation
- process safety
- replacing the internal prevention adviser
Experience
External prevention adviser safety – Mensura
Since 2008
Operations Manager – Comus International Group
2004 – 2008
Business Manager – Günther Belgium
2003 – 2004
Quality Manager, internal prevention adviser and environmental coordinator, class A – Günther Belgium
1997 – 2003
Quality Manager, head of quality assurance and reliability and application engineer for reed and solid state relays – CP Clare International
1988 – 1997
Degrees
Post-academic training safety management, level 1
1998 – 2000
Industrial engineer electromechanics – electronics
1984 – 1987
Over the course of the years I have added to my knowledge by attending courses and seminars on reliability, quality costs, customer service, efficient problem-solving, ISO9000, statistical process control, internal auditor, total quality management, machine guidelines, reading wiring diagrams, machine safety – and so on.
Courses
Attend my courses on ‘Risk assessment of electrical hazards in the workplace’, ‘Mechanical safety by design & adjustments’ and ‘Prevention advisor - basic level (level 3)’.