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1 safety check lists, travel pass monitoring as a discrete
2 responsibility of managers, or is it, as it says here, part
3 of a general inspection?
4 A. We have a -- yes, we do have a health and safety audit,
5 we call it.
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7 Q. The audit?
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. That is something, I believe, they recommended in this
11 report. Do you remember reading that?
12 A. Yes, I am not sure if it was in existence before they
13 came round. I certainly recollect we had health and safety
14 audits when I was an Operations Manager, but they are
15 constantly being revised and updated.
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17 Q. It says here that the general safety issues that would have
18 been checked, in their opinion, were things like spillages
19 and equipment disrepair, but the general safety matters
20 were not regularly identified or monitored. Is that what
21 you remember the situation was, which is that certain
22 things were concentrated on but there may have been areas
23 which got missed out?
24 A. In my recollection, in 1992 we had a bulky health and
25 safety audit that was done on a monthly basis which covered
26 a whole area. That was not the same as a travel path. A
27 travel path around the restaurant is probably done every 45
28 minutes, every hour, by the restaurant manager. So, that
29 is just a physical check on things happens within that time
30 period. So, a spilled drink or something like that would
31 be picked up there. But, as regards a more detailed look
32 at, you know, behind things and underneath things and
33 checking in detail the state of equipment, that would be
34 done on a monthly basis.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think somewhere it says the travel path was
37 every 30 minutes?
38 A. That is the guideline, yes.
39
40 Q. Can I understand what you are saying, checking in detail
41 the state of the equipment, I know, comes on one of the
42 documents which we have looked at which is, essentially,
43 directed at food hygiene. It is the one where you test the
44 temperature gauges and everything like that?
45 A. We have a number of systems in place. The one that you
46 refer to, I think, was possibly the daily product check
47 list when we check the end product, but the weekly
48 calibration check list, where we check that the equipment
49 is functioning correctly and some basic maintenance tasks
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52 Q. Do not bother about that. What I am asking is paragraph
53 4.4 seems to say that there was -- it does say -- no
54 written health and safety check list to follow if they were
55 to conduct a routine check, say, weekly from the health and
56 safety aspect. Is that right or not?
57 A. My recollection was that we filled in a health and
58 safety check list on a monthly basis at that time, but many
59 of the other aspects were covered on our other systems.
60 The particular safety of equipment, we have a plant
