Day 084 - 07 Feb 95 - Page 48
1 customer services department, because I think they are of
2 greater use than the ones we have been provided up to now.
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4 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the Defendants were granted the
5 opportunity to see the accident statistics.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not going to deal with this now. I have
8 said it before. We have got to mark it down. We will come
9 back to these things, deal with it then. It is fair enough
10 for you to register it in the way you have, but we will
11 come back to it because it does not affect your further
12 cross-examination of Mr. Atherton in any event, especially
13 when he keeps deferring to Ms. Barnes who is going to give
14 evidence in any event.
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16 MR. MORRIS: The RIDDOR statistics ----
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What was the page reference again of when
19 I dealt with it before, 21st December 1993?
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21 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, 21st December. Your Lordship refused the
22 application.
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just the page number.
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26 MR. RAMPTON: It is two pages. It is page 16E to page 17B.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you. That is all I need to know.
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30 MR. MORRIS: The RIDDOR reporting is a legal obligation, is it
31 not?
32 A. I believe so, yes.
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34 Q. So, apart from your legal obligations to report RIDDOR
35 level accidents, you do not have any policy for the
36 reporting of other employee accidents except for in the
37 blue book in the store?
38 A. The policy is that you record all accidents in the blue
39 book.
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41 Q. The information in the blue book is not collated?
42 A. Jill may contradict me, but to my knowledge we do not
43 collate information. However, it is read when people audit
44 the restaurant to check out -----
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46 Q. So, apart from the collation of the RIDDOR which are
47 legally binding reporting, the company makes no statistics
48 on employee accidents?
49 A. I am unaware of any other than that.
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51 Q. Are the incident report forms collated into some kind of
52 statistical analysis?
53 A. They may well be, but I again have not seen that.
54 I believe on a regional basis there is some prioritisation
55 of incidents in the store, but I do not know the details.
56 Again, I am sorry to keep deferring to Jill but she has a
57 great working knowledge of this.
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59 Q. But you are responsible, are you not, for the overall
60 policy on health and safety, is that correct, of employees?
