Our Experts

16 Health and Safety Experts at Your Fingertips

Meet the team of 16 experts who will make your job easier when you order your trial copy of the Health & Safety Advisor.

Nell Browne

A registered Occupational Health Practitioner, with 20 years experience in the occupational health and safety field. She has a Certificate in Medicine and Law (Cum Laude) and is registered with SAATCA as an OHSAS 18001 Senior auditor. She is registered with the ETDP SETA as a facilitator, assessor and moderator and regularly designs and presents OHS training.
 

Richard Swift

Richard joined his father in the field of occupational health and safety eleven years ago. Within a few years, he had achieved a +95% average for risk management at three of his client's operations, culminating in receiving an internal award of "best of the best" for the highest score within the group of companies.
 


Sven Marcus

Sven is an Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner with over 19 years health care experience. She has 7 years experience in the occupational health industry, where she manages Wellness clinics for various companies.

Wilna Louw-Malan

(B. Cur, OH, ROSProf, F.IoSM, SAATCA HSE 002)
Wilna is the General Manager of Edwilo Risk Consultants, a health safety and environmental consultancy business. She is a registered Occupational Safety Professional, Assessor for OSHAP PDB, Deputy President of the Institute of Safety Management, and a registered HSE Systems Auditor.


Stephanie Kruger

Stephanie is a registered occupational nurse practitioner, and started Soul Sister. Her aim is to integrate complementary health with allopathic medicine, by providing holistic care to the patient within the workplace, and assisting them in their own healing process.
 

Other contributors to the Health and Safety Advisor include:

Hayleth Gunter
Hayleth is a Health and Safety and Risk Management Consultant with 25 years experience in the Risk Control field. He was previously the Regional Manager in the Johannesburg region for the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA). Since 1989 he has provided a consulting service to industry locally and internationally, assisting companies to implement the requirements of current Health and Safety Legislation.

Ted Rowen
Ted was a fellow of the Institute of Safety Management, the South African Institute of Security and the South African Institute for Risk Managers. He was a registered Occupational Health and Safety Practitioner.

Anita De Wet
Anita has 16 years industry experience and is passionate about behavioral training. She is an affiliate of BST® (Behavioral Science Technologies), and is involved with the UNISA team busy compiling a curriculum for Behavioral Science.

Ray Strydom
Ray is currently a SHE Risk Management Consultant (specialising in construction) and administrator for six professional OHS bodies. He owns his own safety consultancy, is Executive Director of Safety First Association and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Safety Management (IoSM).

Eric Swift
Eric has over 35 years experience in the field of occupational health and safety. He started a health and safety consultancy fourteen years ago and uses his experience to advise clients on the best way to achieve legal compliance.

Carine van Onselen
Carine is currently an advocate in the Pretoria High Court. She has held positions as both a Group compliance Manager and SHEQ legal consultant and Trainer.

Dr André Louw
M.B.,Ch. B., M. Fam. Med, D.O.H., M.B.A.
Dr Louw is the managing director of LMM Occupational Health Inc., an occupational health consulting and service delivery entity. His main interests include designing and implementing occupational health risk management plans, designing and rolling out strategic HIV response programmes in industry and the management of disability in the workplace.

Edmund Galvin
Edmund has been involved in doing OHASA audits, implementing risk plans and managing this function for clients in a wide spectrum of industry, which includes warehousing/distribution centres, construction, factories, electrical, offices and retail.

Bosman Stramrood
Bosman has 18 years experience in the field of safety, health and environment. He started his career in the mining industry. Currently he is Executive Head: SHEQ Consulting and Training at Metrix Software Solutions. He has served as local and international (3rd world and 1st world) consultant for all industry types and trained thousands of people in safety management. He served as Risk Manager for two of South Africa’s Mobile Telephone Networks.

Michele Bowmer
Michele is a registered Occupational Safety Professional (ROSProF), and a Training Development Manager for IRCA Coastal (Pty) Ltd – South Eastern Division. She regularly conducts training for companies in Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay and Saldanha Bay.