Day 112 - 31 Mar 95 - Page 39
1 temperatures with Jarretts. There was usually a column of
2 notes at the bottom of the form.
3
4 Q. In this meeting you had with the Jarrett brothers I believe
5 you said about carcass temperatures, that was one of the
6 matters that you raised, yes?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. Did you have that file with you, did you show it to them or
10 anything like that?
11 A. Yes, I did.
12
13 Q. This meeting you had with them, did you raise all of your
14 other concerns?
15 A. Well, particularly this last meeting where we discussed
16 and came to a decision about the carcass, particularly
17 about the carcass temperatures. We only discussed these
18 issues that I considered very urgent, the carcass
19 temperatures and the BSE certification.
20
21 Q. Did you make minutes of these meetings?
22 A. The only minutes I made was of the first meeting. It
23 was a long three-hour meeting we had with the management
24 where we referred to all the things that I thought, all the
25 problem areas in the plant and then we made sort of general
26 decisions that these would have to be rectified in the
27 future. They told me at this meeting that they were going
28 to present me with an improvement plan for the plant in the
29 near future. Those issues were dropped subject to me
30 receiving that plan that I received either one or two days
31 before I was dismissed. All the other subsequent -- this
32 was the only meeting that I minuted since nobody else did
33 it, and I was particularly requested by Bob Jarrett not to
34 minute meetings because he -- well, his argument was that
35 he did not want additional paper work. The subsequent
36 meetings I had with them were not minuted by anybody.
37 I usually made references to them in my day book.
38
39 Q. Where is the day book?
40 A. I cannot find it.
41
42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But you brought that away with you?
43 A. I brought that away with me. There was -- how do you
44 call it? The hours that would be required to work at
45 Jarretts, as you can see from my pay sheets, were very long
46 day and I was not prepared to work full-time even though
47 the Council requested that I would be present every day
48 when another OVS who was being trained at the time would
49 take over part-time work at the abattoir. I was asked by
50 the Council to be present at least five hours every day at
51 the plant because of my experience. I established a day
52 book for it to be some time of communication medium between
53 me and the other OVS on the days where we did not meet, so
54 that he would know what had happened at the plant while
55 I was there.
56
57 MR. MORRIS: Did you send any of these records to the Council
58 yourself?
59 A. No, I did not. The Council representative senior meat
60 inspector, David White, came to the abattoir often at the
