Day 181 - 01 Nov 95 - Page 40


     
     1        A.  Yes, I can see that.
     2
     3   Q.   The third sentence says: "Preliminary results from the 1994
     4        LFS" -- that is the Labour Force Survey -- "indicate that
     5        there has been a small but discernible improvement in
     6        levels of reporting by employers with the percentage of
     7        injuries recorded having risen from 34 to 38 per cent."
     8
     9        Do you know, Mr. Pearson, what is the current rate of
    10        reporting in the fast food industry?
    11        A.  In the fast food industry, I am not aware that there
    12        are any separate fast food statistics.
    13
    14   Q.   You would not be familiar with a figure of 16.5 per cent,
    15        one in 6?
    16        A.  No, I do not -- I am not aware of the 16.5 per cent
    17        reporting figure for the fast food industry, but it looks
    18        to me to be somewhat below the figure that you have
    19        referred to for the average.
    20
    21   Q.   Do you know what McDonald's reporting rate is and was back
    22        in 1990 or 1992?
    23        A.  No, because I have not seen any evidence on that.
    24
    25   Q.   Very well.  Will you please turn to page 93, where you have
    26        some graphs?  Doing the best I can without a coloured copy,
    27        am I right that for fatal injuries the lowest score, the
    28        last line on the graph, is the service industry?
    29        A.  Yes, yes.
    30
    31   Q.   Am I also right that tht is true also of the non-fatal
    32        injuries in the second figure?
    33        A.  Yes, that is right.
    34
    35   Q.   Can you turn over the page?
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, which graph are we looking at here?
    38
    39   THE WITNESS:  Figure 2.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  I think it was a sort of mode colouring.
    42
    43   THE WITNESS:  It is figures 1 and 2, and the lower line is
    44        purple, and it shows the service industry scoring the
    45        lowest of all the six sectors.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Services, is that -- maybe the witness can be asked
    48        what that means.
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, your own witness, I think, referred to 
    51        them.  Mr. Pearson referred to what they were. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  The hotel and catering industry, Mr. Pearson, are
    54        part of services, are they not?
    55        A.  You would have to accept that is where they would be if
    56        they were anywhere.
    57
    58   Q.   We will see some actual figures in a minute, although these
    59        are reported figures so one must treat them with every
    60        piece of due caution, I quite agree.

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