Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 38
1 MS. STEEL: If you had walked in on that when it very first
2 happened, would you have instructed the employees to stop
3 working immediately?
4 A. If what I visualise from what she described happened,
5 yes, I probably would stop them working immediately.
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7 Q. You are not aware of this incident at all?
8 A. No, I do not know where it happened.
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10 Q. Southgate.
11 A. No, not at all.
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13 Q. Would Head Office be informed of an incident like that?
14 A. Mmm.
15
16 Q. It would be?
17 A. Mmm.
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19 Q. Who in Head Office would be informed of an incident like
20 that?
21 A. Oh, well, ever so many people: Operations, the
22 Operations Supervisor, the Operations Senior Supervisor,
23 the Operations Manager, the Construction Department, the
24 people within the Construction Department that deal with
25 plumbing -- I take it it is a plumbing fault -- just about
26 everybody would know about it. They would be the people
27 who one would expect to take action immediately.
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29 Q. Would anyone in the Personnel Department be notified about
30 it?
31 A. I would probably see the report. I do not know whether
32 there is anything in there that would affect personnel.
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34 Q. For example, if the staff continued working for 20 minutes
35 and there was a risk of electrocution, or something like
36 that?
37 A. Of course that would -- that would alert everybody.
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39 Q. She worked between July 1986 and June 1987, so that was at
40 the time you were Head of Personnel?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. But you do not remember ---
44 A. No.
45
46 Q. -- hearing anything about it?
47 A. No. I may have been informed. I may have known about
48 it, but it is possibly eight years ago. No, I do not
49 recollect it.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Shall we pause there? We will resume at
52 2 o'clock.
53
54 (Luncheon adjournment)
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56 MR. MORRIS: Just one question on the matter we were touching
57 upon before lunch -- I cannot remember if I asked you --
58 you said about sewage, the incident in Southend being the
59 only incident that you know of?
60 A. Yes.
