Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 51
1 RIDDOR accidents, are they, notifiables?
2 A. They are the RIDDOR accidents, yes.
3
4 Q. It mentions the office, the restaurant office accident book
5 and also the incident report form, you see in paragraphs 1
6 and 2?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. It also mentions in the first unnumbered paragraph the
10 accident procedure check list which you have just mentioned
11 I think?
12 A. Yes.
13
14 Q. Is that right?
15 A. Yes.
16
17 Q. Please turn to page 751 which is a different document. Can
18 you tell us what this document is?
19 A. I believe this is from the Personnel Policies and
20 Procedures Manual.
21
22 Q. What is that?
23 A. This is a reference manual that all the restaurants
24 have a copy of which relates, for example, to personnel
25 procedures on discipline and included in there is a health
26 and safety section.
27
28 Q. You will have to take this from me, if I am wrong somebody
29 will in due course correct me. It appears to contain
30 virtually the same material as what we saw in the employee
31 handbook a moment ago?
32 A. It would come from the -- the document we could not
33 read the we had photocopied, the one that goes on the
34 notice board in the restaurants, that is the reference.
35
36 Q. It is a bit a shorter. We looked, as you say, at the
37 health and safety policy statement a moment ago. The next
38 topic I want to deal with, Mrs. Barnes, is McDonald's
39 reporting procedures. First question, have they changed,
40 been improved or whatever since you took over in your
41 present position?
42 A. They have stayed very much the same, in that they are
43 reported by the regional offices. These days they are
44 reported by my people or the admin assistants working for
45 them, but prior to that they were reported by the Personnel
46 Department.
47
48 Q. Did the serious accidents get back to the Health and Safety
49 Task Force which is, in a sense, your predecessor in the
50 same way it does now?
51 A. The statistics were not prepared in quite the formal
52 way that we do now, but because there was regional
53 representation on the Task Force they would have had people
54 coming to that meeting bringing along information of any
55 noteable accidents that had happened.
56
57 Q. Tell us, please, Mrs. Barnes, starting at the bottom, the
58 accident happens or the accidents happen in the restaurant,
59 tell us how the information gets back to you and what sort
60 of information it is that you need and receive in order to
