Day 086 - 09 Feb 95 - Page 16
1 happened every night, sorry, yes.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Are staff advised on the type of shoes they should
4 wear?
5 A. Yes.
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7 Q. How are they advised?
8 A. I believe we ask them to have enclosed shoes, so that
9 is rather than sandals. I believe we ask them to be dark
10 coloured and -- I am sure this is in some of the documents
11 we have here. I cannot remember the other things. I know
12 the essence of it is that you have a pair of safe shoes of
13 dark appearance, rather than sandals or high heels.
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15 Q. Are management expected to be particularly smart?
16 A. No more smarter than the crew but of smart appearance,
17 yes.
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19 Q. Are they particularly encouraged to wear leather shoes,
20 management?
21 A. I do not know if it is specified that we say leather,
22 but we may do.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: This is not your main thrust, is it? Your
25 main thrust is that it should be perfectly safe, whatever
26 footwear you are wearing.
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28 MR. MORRIS: It should.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We cannot all be told we have to wear rubber
31 soles if we go into McDonald's, can we?
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33 MR. MORRIS: Yes, OK. (To the witness): When there is small
34 electrical or mechanical work to be done in the store, who
35 does that work?
36 A. It would normally be an outside contractor to do
37 electrical work.
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39 Q. Any electrical work?
40 A. No, there is, I believe, some tasks covered on the
41 applied equipment course.
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43 Q. Like what? What basically happens in stores when there is
44 minor electrical work to be done? Name the kinds of
45 electrical work that is done in-store without calling in
46 contractors?
47 A. I have difficulty because I do not have working
48 knowledge of this particular area but I know -----
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50 Q. You have been a manager, have you not?
51 A. I have been a manager, yes.
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53 Q. So when you had electrical work to be done in your
54 stores ---
55 A. You want me to -----
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57 Q. -- without calling a contractor in, what kind of jobs would
58 be done?
59 A. I know when I was out in Operations that we had
60 instructions that we had to have external people to come
