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     1        how to replace spare parts which are not included on the
     2        attached list, but I would emphasise that this level of
     3        training is" -- and now we get underlining -- "only
     4        intended to help with pre-staff general knowledge of
     5        electrical equipment, nothing more.  Should you have any
     6        queries, do please give me a ring."
     7
     8        My question about that is, and the next one which is also
     9        on page 775, addressed to licensees as well as store
    10        managers in the northern region:  what is the licensee
    11        supposed to with this?  I mean, can he just put it in the
    12        bin and forget about it?
    13        A.  Sorry, I do not quite understand.
    14
    15   Q.   What does the Company expect the licensees will do on
    16        receipt of a document like that?
    17        A.  Well, the Company would, again, expect the licensees to
    18        follow the Company line in terms of those people they would
    19        allow to work on electrical equipment.
    20
    21   Q.   Then on page 776, again from Frank Frost, 6th June 1992:
    22
    23        "Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, Audit.  An audit is
    24        to be carried out on every restaurant to assess whether or
    25        not the necessary action detailed below and as pressed over
    26        the last 12 months has been carried out to ensure we comply
    27        with the recently introduced Electricity at Work
    28        Regulations."
    29
    30        Third paragraph, he tells you where to start in the second
    31        paragraph, and then he says:
    32
    33        "Should a restaurant fail an audit, then they will have
    34        14 days to complete all outstanding work highlighted."
    35
    36        Mrs. Barnes, the question I ask you is: was the actual
    37        exercise of an audit a legal requirement in itself?
    38        A.  No.  It was something that we wanted to do to make sure
    39        that the procedures were being followed with regard to the
    40        equipment service history file.
    41
    42   Q.   Now, between that document and the next one at 779 -- which
    43        I will ask you to look at in a moment, whose date is 7th
    44        September, 1992 -- am I right that there was an incident in
    45        the Midlands where a girl, whose second name -- I am afraid
    46        I cannot remember her first name -- was Harborne, received
    47        quite a serious electric shock?
    48        A.  The restaurant was called Harborne.
    49
    50   Q.   Sorry.  Not the girl? 
    51        A.  No. 
    52 
    53   Q.   But it was one of the female crew members, I think, was it
    54        not?
    55        A.  Yes.  One of crew received an electric shock from a
    56        filtering machine.
    57
    58   Q.   From a filtering machine?
    59        A.  Yes.
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