Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 56
1 Q. About 18 months?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. Was it your responsibility that it should go in there?
5 A. It was one of my people that developed it, yes.
6
7 Q. What prompted that development?
8 A. It was just one of the things that we felt needed
9 clarifying. The accident checklist has been in the
10 restaurants as long as I can remember.
11
12 Q. I see.
13 A. But this clarification of what is a reportable accident
14 and what is not, we thought it could be laid out a little
15 better than it was previously.
16
17 Q. Was it in this striking coloured format previously?
18 A. It was not, no. But there are some new safety sign
19 regulations due out later this year and this format
20 complies with those as well. So we thought it was a good
21 opportunity to get ahead of the things.
22
23 Q. Can we just have a look at a sample or samples of an
24 incident report form. They are in tab 57 P of this file,
25 which is the one before. It so happens, Mrs. Barnes, that
26 quite by chance we have these from another source. They
27 come from the Glasgow area for the period 93/94 more or
28 less. Notice the first one. It has got slapped on the
29 front of it "NB: A notifiable accident is" and so on and
30 then it describes it; do you see that?
31 A. No.
32
33 Q. A different order. Can you find one which has on the front
34 of it a white sticker?
35 A. Yes, I have it.
36
37 Q. Do you know for how long that sort of definition has been
38 on the front of this book of report forms?
39 A. I suspect that this might be something locally that
40 they have done because I have not seen it before.
41
42 Q. I see. This would be a local initiative, would it?
43 A. Yes, I would suspect so.
44
45 Q. I am right, am I, that these incident report forms come in
46 books with carbons behind each front sheet?
47 A. They do, yes.
48
49 Q. And they are torn off and an incident report form is sent
50 in and the carbon is left in the restaurant?
51 A. That is right. There is always a record in the
52 restaurant.
53
54 Q. My Lord, there are examples. The original is here in
55 court, if your Lordship would like to look at it.
56
57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. Unless some particular point is taken on
58 it, I will not at this stage.
59
60 MR. RAMPTON: Just glance inside, Mrs. Barnes, at the actual
