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1 six months there has been one board meeting within that
2 period of time, and I prepared information for that board
3 meeting which was presented there, and I had feed-back on
4 that. It was my understanding that Jill Barnes did the
5 same before that because that was her responsibility.
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7 Q. But you are senior to Jill Barnes?
8 A. Jill Barnes works for me.
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10 Q. So the person before you did not do what you are now doing?
11 A. There was not a person before me in this position.
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13 Q. Does that give the health and safety issue more weight, now
14 that there is a new position?
15 A. It could be construed as that, yes. I think the main
16 reason, though, is that it brings health and safety closer
17 to other disciplines so they become more closely associated
18 with training, that they transfer information between
19 training, Operations Development and Customer Services.
20 Those four areas, you know, with one Department Head can
21 become more closely aligned. They are very specific
22 disciplines, but they do cross over in certain aspects.
23 So, I think, in future, it will enable health and safety to
24 be more proactive, to manage more effectively the
25 communication channels to be much shorter. So, it is
26 definitely, if not a raising in stature, a development that
27 may help us to manage health and safety even more
28 efficiently.
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30 Q. Have you in your six months identified any criticisms of
31 the company's setup that would require some action or some
32 changes?
33 A. In?
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In health and safety.
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37 MR. MORRIS: In health and safety.
38 A. A lot of the work we have done recently, it is an area
39 that, it was pointed out to me that customer safety was not
40 part of what we were talking about here, but a lot of the
41 work that the health and safety department has been doing
42 recently was in the customer safety area.
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44 Q. So has there been now a shift that health and safety, which
45 was under the umbrella of the Customer Services department,
46 has now shifted somehow to a new standing with you at the
47 head? Is that what has happened? It has been moved from
48 the Customers Services department.
49 A. I am sorry. Could you clarify that?
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51 Q. I did not understand what you had previously said. You
52 said something about it was Customer Services who generally
53 dealt with that issue.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Let us keep it in order because the customer
56 safety is not an issue in the trial. It may be an issue
57 for you at work. It may be something which Mr. Morris
58 personally is concerned about. However, it is not an issue
59 in the trial. That is what Mr. Rampton meant.
60 A. OK.
