All Outputs (14)

An AcciMap approach to analyse the Chinese melamine milk scandal (2024)
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Purpose
The 2008 Chinese melamine milk scandal resulted in six reported fatalities and affected around 300,000 children, of whom 54,000 were hospitalised. Previous studies have used linear approaches to examine the root causes of the melamine milk s... Read More about An AcciMap approach to analyse the Chinese melamine milk scandal.

The application of systematic accident analysis tools to investigate food safety incidents (2024)
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Effective food safety (FS) management relies on the understanding of the factors that contribute to FS incidents (FSIs) and the means for their mitigation and control. This review aims to explore the application of systematic accident analysis tools... Read More about The application of systematic accident analysis tools to investigate food safety incidents.

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

Systematic mapping of food safety outbreaks in the hospitality sector in the Dominican Republic (2022)
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Purpose: The hospitality sector underpins the Dominican Republic's (DR) economy but may be a setting where foodborne disease outbreaks (FBDOs) can occur. The purpose of this research is to conduct a systematic mapping exercise on the available scient... Read More about Systematic mapping of food safety outbreaks in the hospitality sector in the Dominican Republic.

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

Forgotten children: A socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms (2021)
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Human factors and ergonomics systems-based tools for understanding and addressing global problems of the twenty-first century (2019)
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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.

Global food safety as a complex adaptive system: Key concepts and future prospects (2019)
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Background
Over the last few decades the food production, distribution and consumption chains have become complex as a result of globalisation and food travelling over large distances. The food supply chain is a multi-layered structure with multiple... Read More about Global food safety as a complex adaptive system: Key concepts and future prospects.

Food safety culture - the food inspectors' perspective (2018)
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges for food inspectors when attempting to assess the food safety culture of a business. It is the eighth article in this issue of Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, discussing the im... Read More about Food safety culture - the food inspectors' perspective.

The assessment of food safety culture: An investigation of current challenges, barriers and future opportunities within the food industry (2016)
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Following the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak in the UK and the recommendations in the subsequent Public Enquiry Report in 2009, the topic of food safety culture became more prominent. In 2012, the United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) commissioned... Read More about The assessment of food safety culture: An investigation of current challenges, barriers and future opportunities within the food industry.

‘When Food Kills’: A socio-technical systems analysis of the UK Pennington 1996 and 2005 E.coli O157 Outbreak reports (2016)
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In 1996 and 2005, two of the largest E. coli O157 outbreaks occurred in the UK. Many people were infected after consuming meat resulting in a number of deaths. In the present study we applied a systems approach to both the outbreak reports to analyse... Read More about ‘When Food Kills’: A socio-technical systems analysis of the UK Pennington 1996 and 2005 E.coli O157 Outbreak reports.