Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 54


     
     1        danger, or complaint is said to be.  So, I am not
     2        suggesting you take long on that, but you must ask a
     3        question or two to make it clear.
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  You have said it does not pose a real safety hazard
     6        because people are not actually walking underneath it.  So,
     7        is the situation that it is, every so often it is causing
     8        dripping onto the floor?
     9        A.  It drips onto the floor.  When it drips onto the floor
    10        it drips onto the floor underneath the piece of equipment.
    11        The only major problem it is to us is that when you take
    12        the grills out to clean behind them each night there is a
    13        big puddle of grease on the floor.  It is a mess problem
    14        rather than a health and safety problem because it cannot
    15        leak out of the front because of the way the trough leans
    16        back.
    17
    18   Q.   But the point is that sometimes the grease that is falling
    19        underneath the equipment can come out onto the walking
    20        surface and it will have to be cleaned up?
    21        A.  I seriously doubt that.  It would have to be an
    22        exceptionally busy day or you would have to not empty the
    23        grease trap for, perhaps, two or three days because at the
    24        end of the day there is not sufficient grease in there to
    25        actually reach the four feet underneath the grill.  By the
    26        time it actually reaches the floor it is cold anyway and it
    27        just goes to a sort of fudge substance.
    28
    29   Q.   Coming onto the chicken vats -- forget the RCD connection
    30        -- one of the chicken vats had a particular problem or has
    31         -- I do not know if it still has -- a particular problem
    32        of cutting out the actual gas dripping out?
    33        A.  That is incorrect.
    34
    35   Q.   Say, for example, last year?
    36        A.  That is incorrect.  It is not possible for the gas to
    37        sort of cut out to one grill and -- or to one VAT, I beg
    38        your pardon.
    39
    40   Q.   Just something I missed out, I am sorry:  The food that you
    41        would get in from other stores, that would include shake
    42        mix, meat, fries, chicken and buns, would it?
    43        A.  It would be exceptionally rare to run out of those
    44        items but, if necessary, we would do it, yes, and they
    45        would be transported in the appropriate form of transport.
    46
    47   Q.   You said once a fortnight you were bringing in when you ran
    48        out of things?
    49        A.  Yes, once a fortnight is when we ran out of stock, not
    50        necessarily frozen stock or refrigerated stock.  It would 
    51        be exceptionally rare to run out of frozen stock because 
    52        you get a delivery every two days and most of the products 
    53        have a shelf life of at least three months.  So you can
    54        order sufficient stocks to last two days.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How often are the deliveries?
    57        A.  Deliveries are every two days.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  Back to the chicken vats:  The chicken vats were
    60        affected by the RCD in the same way as the grills?

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