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     1        six months there has been one board meeting within that
     2        period of time, and I prepared information for that board
     3        meeting which was presented there, and I had feed-back on
     4        that.  It was my understanding that Jill Barnes did the
     5        same before that because that was her responsibility.
     6
     7   Q.   But you are senior to Jill Barnes?
     8        A.  Jill Barnes works for me.
     9
    10   Q.   So the person before you did not do what you are now doing?
    11        A.  There was not a person before me in this position.
    12
    13   Q.   Does that give the health and safety issue more weight, now
    14        that there is a new position?
    15        A.  It could be construed as that, yes.  I think the main
    16        reason, though, is that it brings health and safety closer
    17        to other disciplines so they become more closely associated
    18        with training, that they transfer information between
    19        training, Operations Development and Customer Services.
    20        Those four areas, you know, with one Department Head can
    21        become more closely aligned.  They are very specific
    22        disciplines, but they do cross over in certain aspects.
    23        So, I think, in future, it will enable health and safety to
    24        be more proactive, to manage more effectively the
    25        communication channels to be much shorter.  So, it is
    26        definitely, if not a raising in stature, a development that
    27        may help us to manage health and safety even more
    28        efficiently.
    29
    30   Q.   Have you in your six months identified any criticisms of
    31        the company's setup that would require some action or some
    32        changes?
    33        A.  In?
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In health and safety.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  In health and safety.
    38        A.  A lot of the work we have done recently, it is an area
    39        that, it was pointed out to me that customer safety was not
    40        part of what we were talking about here, but a lot of the
    41        work that the health and safety department has been doing
    42        recently was in the customer safety area.
    43
    44   Q.   So has there been now a shift that health and safety, which
    45        was under the umbrella of the Customer Services department,
    46        has now shifted somehow to a new standing with you at the
    47        head?  Is that what has happened?  It has been moved from
    48        the Customers Services department.
    49        A.  I am sorry.  Could you clarify that?
    50 
    51   Q.   I did not understand what you had previously said.  You 
    52        said something about it was Customer Services who generally 
    53        dealt with that issue.
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Let us keep it in order because the customer
    56        safety is not an issue in the trial.  It may be an issue
    57        for you at work.  It may be something which Mr. Morris
    58        personally is concerned about.  However, it is not an issue
    59        in the trial.  That is what Mr. Rampton meant.
    60        A.  OK.

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