Rounaq Nayak

Bournemouth University | BU · Department of Life and Environmental Sciences

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 processes and functioning of food safety regulatory and enforcement agencies across the world. Design/Method...

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/ergonomics (HFE) approach in an NHS trust to develop interventions across micro, unit and organisatio...

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 scientific literature related to FBDOs in hospitality in the DR and their link to reported food safety and...

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 complex systems and the chain of events contributing to accidents resulting from system failure. Howeve...

Global food production needs to increase by approximately 70% by 2050 to ensure food security and feed the global population which is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. To achieve these objectives in a sustainable manner, there is a need for modernisation and intensification of agricultural practices. There is also an increasing demand for prov...

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, and the use of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM), the aim of the study was to explor...

Using a systems analysis approach, the authors analyse forced child labour incidents in Indian cottonseed farms in the years 2003/04 and 2014/15, and explore the role played by human factors in contributing to the illegal use of child labour in the Indian agri-food sector. National policies on labour welfare and rights are reviewed through the case...

Sustainability is a systems problem with humans as integral elements of the system. However, sustainability problems usually have a broader scope than sociotechnical systems and therefore require additional considerations. This requires a fuller integration of complex systems understanding into the systems analysis toolset currently available to hu...

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 interactions across and within the hierarchical levels across the entire food system. As unwanted fa...

Purpose The aim of this article 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 importance of measuring food safety and quality culture. Design/methodology/approach As part of a larg...

Since the evolution of the concept of ‘food safety’, the focus has been on eliminating harmful microorganisms from food. Despite this long-standing approach, there have been a number of food poisoning outbreaks and at times, deaths, in the UK. Reactive measures such as outbreak investigation reports have identified a wide range of factors contribut...

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 a tool that enforcement officers could use to assess ‘softer aspects’ of risk such as safety cultur...

TESTA is a methodology designed to address assessment and feedback issues at the programme-level. It is built on a robust, triangulated research methodology with qualitative and quantitative elements, and underpinned by educational principles and research literature. TESTA has been implemented on over 100 programmes across 40 national and internati...

The project was intended to increase the number of Researcher Career Contacts (RCCs) in the Careers and Employability Centre (CEC) database there by embedding the upkeep and development of the RCC as part of the overall CEC provision, and also to increase the number of services RCC’s could offer for the benefit of Loughborough University’s post gra...

This article was published in The Ergonomist (Magazine); June 2015 v.540.

In the present research work, production and partial purification of fungal lipase using Aspergillus niger isolated from Ayurvedic oil waste was done. Fungal colonies were isolated from the ayurvedic oil waste collected from ―Ayush Ayurvedic Centre‖, Chennai. The pure colonies were then used as inoculum for fermentation of lipase from the waste onl...

In this project, the novel MicroSnap™ Coliform detection device, manufactured by Hygiena International, was evaluated by comparing it with the 3M™ Petri-films, which uses the traditional culture techniques concept. Since this novel device needs 6 hours and 10 minutes to provide the quantitative results and the petri-films require 24 hours to provid...

In this project, the novel MicroSnap™ Coliform detection device, manufactured by Hygiena International, was evaluated by comparing it with the 3M™ Petri-films, which uses the traditional culture techniques concept. Since this novel device needs 6 hours and 10 minutes to provide the quantitative results and the petri-films require 24 hours to provid...

An attempt on basic study of the caffeine degrading organism and screening of potential 'caffeinase' producing bacteria has been studied and reported. Caffeine is present in soft drinks, coffee plants, tea leaves, and kola nuts and is used extensively in human consumption. Various health and environmental demerits makes it significant to reduce the...