Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 52
1 do your job?
2 A. In order to report the accidents?
3
4 Q. Yes, how the accidents, the ones which matter to you, get
5 to you, information about them? How does it work?
6 A. The restaurants are required to telephone my people
7 regionally if they feel they have had an accident that
8 could be reportable. They might not know initially because
9 one of the categories is that the employee will be off work
10 for more than three days. We prefer them to ring if they
11 are in any doubt because at least we know about the
12 accident and can follow up with them and say: "Are they
13 back at work today?" and so forth. So they would call up.
14 If immediately we know it is reportable, for example if
15 somebody has fractured a limb, then my people would arrange
16 for the F2508 which is the statutory form to be filled in.
17
18 Q. The RIDDOR form?
19 A. He RIDDOR form, yes. That has to be back to the
20 Environmental Health Officer within 24 hours if it is
21 classified one of these major accidents. Usually with that
22 they would wring the Environmental Health Officer as well.
23 Otherwise it has to be back within seven days, so a
24 covering letter and it goes off.
25
26 Q. That is he statutory requirement. What about information
27 for the Company itself?
28 A. Each F2508, the information that form is put into a
29 database which is obviously by one of our admin people.
30
31 Q. How does it reach the database?
32 A. She reads it off the form and puts it straight in.
33
34 Q. What about incident report forms, are they used to record
35 this kind of thing?
36 A. We do not do any statistics from incident report forms,
37 but of course the restaurants do fill them in for minor
38 accidents as well. They, when they come back to head
39 office, are copied to me people who keep them on file. It
40 does form a useful data bank should we require if there is
41 a more serious accident in a restaurant.
42
43 Q. Finally, what about company investigation of serious
44 accidents, does that happen?
45 A. Yes, it does. Any accident that we report we will
46 require the operations personnel to investigate. They are
47 sent out a form which they complete and attach any
48 statements they have made.
49
50 Q. That is an internal company report?
51 A. That is correct.
52
53 Q. Where did that start?
54 A. I believe it was early 1992.
55
56 Q. Well, it is not a memory test this. We will look at some
57 documents in a moment, but I thought it might be helpful to
58 have the structure from you. You have that file XIII
59 there. Perhaps the first document to look at -- all these
60 are at the back -- is 57Q which should look like that.
