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The future of charitable alternative food networks in the UK: An investigation into current challenges and opportunities for foodbanks and community markets (2023)
Journal Article

This study examines the potential of charitable alternative food networks (ANFs), specifically community markets, as a complimentary solution to existing food aid efforts in response to food insecurity. While foodbanks play a crucial role in providin... Read More about The future of charitable alternative food networks in the UK: An investigation into current challenges and opportunities for foodbanks and community markets.

Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach (2022)
Journal Article

Irradiation of the wrong patient or wrong site is a reportable adverse event for hospitals. Improvement efforts to date have been narrowly targeted, often without consideration of wider contextual factors. This study applied a systems human factors/e... Read More about Radiography as a sociotechnical system – improving patient identification with a multi-level human factors approach.

Development of a framework to capture the maturity of food safety regulatory and enforcement agencies: Insights from a Delphi study (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present the first stage of work being undertaken to develop and evaluate a maturity framework designed to assess and benchmark the effectiveness, ability to achieve continuous improvement, and optimise processe... Read More about Development of a framework to capture the maturity of food safety regulatory and enforcement agencies: Insights from a Delphi study.

A socio-technical approach to food safety incident analysis using the AcciMap model in the hospitality sector (2022)
Journal Article

A theory-based systems approach, such as AcciMap accident analysis, has been widely used over the years in multiple safety critical sectors such as the nuclear, petrochemical, aviation and railway industries to provide a detailed understanding of com... Read More about A socio-technical approach to food safety incident analysis using the AcciMap model in the hospitality sector.

Exploration of the fipronil in egg contamination incident in the Netherlands using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (2021)
Journal Article

Following the 2017 fipronil egg contamination incident in the European Union, improvements in safety management continue to be necessary, particularly for regulatory, preventive, and control activities. Drawing from the Dutch and European legislation... Read More about Exploration of the fipronil in egg contamination incident in the Netherlands using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method.

Human factors and ergonomics systems-based tools for understanding and addressing global problems of the twenty-first century (2019)
Journal Article

Sustainability is a systems problem with humans as integral elements of the system. However, sustainability problems usually have a broader scope than socio-technical systems and therefore, require additional considerations. This requires a fuller in... Read More about Human factors and ergonomics systems-based tools for understanding and addressing global problems of the twenty-first century.