Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 52


     
     1        do your job?
     2        A.  In order to report the accidents?
     3
     4   Q.   Yes, how the accidents, the ones which matter to you, get
     5        to you, information about them?  How does it work?
     6        A.  The restaurants are required to telephone my people
     7        regionally if they feel they have had an accident that
     8        could be reportable.  They might not know initially because
     9        one of the categories is that the employee will be off work
    10        for more than three days.  We prefer them to ring if they
    11        are in any doubt because at least we know about the
    12        accident and can follow up with them and say: "Are they
    13        back at work today?" and so forth.  So they would call up.
    14        If immediately we know it is reportable, for example if
    15        somebody has fractured a limb, then my people would arrange
    16        for the F2508 which is the statutory form to be filled in.
    17
    18   Q.   The RIDDOR form?
    19        A.  He RIDDOR form, yes.  That has to be back to the
    20        Environmental Health Officer within 24 hours if it is
    21        classified one of these major accidents.  Usually with that
    22        they would wring the Environmental Health Officer as well.
    23        Otherwise it has to be back within seven days, so a
    24        covering letter and it goes off.
    25
    26   Q.   That is he statutory requirement.  What about information
    27        for the Company itself?
    28        A.  Each F2508, the information that form is put into a
    29        database which is obviously by one of our admin people.
    30
    31   Q.   How does it reach the database?
    32        A.  She reads it off the form and puts it straight in.
    33
    34   Q.   What about incident report forms, are they used to record
    35        this kind of thing?
    36        A.  We do not do any statistics from incident report forms,
    37        but of course the restaurants do fill them in for minor
    38        accidents as well.  They, when they come back to head
    39        office, are copied to me people who keep them on file.  It
    40        does form a useful data bank should we require if there is
    41        a more serious accident in a restaurant.
    42
    43   Q.   Finally, what about company investigation of serious
    44        accidents, does that happen?
    45        A.  Yes, it does.  Any accident that we report we will
    46        require the operations personnel to investigate.  They are
    47        sent out a form which they complete and attach any
    48        statements they have made.
    49
    50   Q.   That is an internal company report? 
    51        A.  That is correct. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Where did that start?
    54        A.  I believe it was early 1992.
    55
    56   Q.   Well, it is not a memory test this.  We will look at some
    57        documents in a moment, but I thought it might be helpful to
    58        have the structure from you.  You have that file XIII
    59        there.  Perhaps the first document to look at -- all these
    60        are at the back -- is 57Q which should look like that.

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