Day 128 - 24 May 95 - Page 41
1 not there, what, if any, course you take.
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3 MS. STEEL: Were there any steps taken to check all the stores
4 with similar tiles.
5 A. Even before this accident, in September 1990, we had
6 already given our commitment to replacing all of the sort
7 of tiles that were involved in this accident.
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9 Q. They were old-style tiles?
10 A. They were the old-style tiles. We had already given a
11 commitment to replace them with the Altro flooring, and
12 doing that in all restaurants over a three-year period.
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14 Q. Is there now someone on the McDonald's board with
15 responsibility for health and safety?
16 A. Yes, Andrew Taylor. He took on that responsibility in
17 late 1991.
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19 Q. Is that his sole responsibility on the board ---
20 A. Sorry?
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22 Q. -- or his particular responsibility?
23 A. I am sorry, I meant 1992. No, he is Chief Operations
24 Officer.
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26 Q. So he is just doing health and safety as part of that?
27 A. Yes, he is Executive Vice President, Chief Operations
28 Officer. Health and Safety and Food Safety are lead
29 responsibilities for him. He comes along to our Health and
30 Safety steering group meeting.
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32 Q. Right.
33 A. He takes an active interest in any decisions that need
34 to be taken between the meetings.
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36 Q. Do local stores do any analysis of trends in accidents at
37 all?
38 A. Part of what they are required to do, as part of safety
39 circle meetings, is to go through accidents in the accident
40 book and monitor any trend.
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42 Q. So that is a recent development then?
43 A. As we discussed yesterday, it is 1992, 1993, that the
44 safety circles were rolled in.
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46 Q. Do you know how many prohibition notices get served on the
47 Company?
48 A. It is something that my people monitor now and report
49 back regionally. In fact, last year I believe -- two of
50 the regions that spring to mind, in the North where there
51 were no prohibition notices and no other notices, and in
52 the Midlands, we just had one improvement notice towards
53 the end of year, and that is all that we had.
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55 Q. What about deferred prohibition notices?
56 A. Well, the only one I can remember of those, because
57 they are a special sort of notice, were the ones served
58 after Mark Hopkins' death.
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60 Q. What is the one in the Midlands for, the prohibition
