Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 58


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  (To the witness):  Moving on to maintenance
     3        and repair:  Jagon Flint, you have said:  "he began working
     4        as a crew member at which time he had a certificate in
     5        basic electrical safety".  Was that certificate contained
     6        in his personnel file?
     7        A.  No, when he started working for us he did not hold a
     8        certificate in basic electrical safety.  He gained that as
     9        a result of going on the first day of the AEC course which
    10        is the electrical safety day.
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    12   Q.   When did he go on that AEC course?
    13        A.  I do not know -- two, three years ago, perhaps more.
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    15   Q.   He joined the Company in 1988?
    16        A.  He did, yes.
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    18   Q.   He joined as crew, yes?
    19        A.  He did.
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    21   Q.   You have put:  "He completed First Aid and Safety at Work
    22        courses".  They were Company courses, were they?
    23        A.  No -- done as part of his college course.
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    25   Q.   When was that?
    26        A.  He started his college course about a month and a half
    27        before he joined us in 1988.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment.
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    31   MR. MORRIS:  Subsequently ------
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    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment, please.
    34        (To the witness):  What was his college course?
    35        A.  He started a course in -- the first one he did was
    36        electrical engineering and he subsequently qualified as a
    37        refrigeration engineer as well.
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    39   Q.   What was that for?  Was that as part of his work at
    40        McDonald's or day leave or something like that?
    41        A.  No, it was just something -- he is hoping to set up his
    42        own business as a .....
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    44   Q.   So that was his own enterprise, was it?
    45        A.  Yes, he was working for us while he was at college to
    46        help pay for his way through college, basically.
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    48   Q.   Yes.
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    50   MR. MORRIS:  When did he qualify as an electrical engineer? 
    51        A.  About two years after 1988, so around 1990.  I think it 
    52        was electrical maintenance rather than electrical 
    53        engineering as such.
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    55   Q.   You said about managers repairing toasters if they have
    56        completed an appropriate training course.  You have
    57        repaired toasters; is that correct?
    58        A.  They do not need repairing.  It is not a -- "repair" is
    59        the wrong word, "replace parts of" is a better word like,
    60        for instance, replacing a buzzer or a timer on a toaster.

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