Day 132 - 07 Jun 95 - Page 35
1 is an expert on safety?
2 A. Staggeringly naive? Why should it be staggeringly
3 naive? Can I just point out that legal advice is readily
4 available, that solicitors advertise on all the national
5 newspapers saying: "If you have had an accident, come to
6 us". Why should someone not take action if they feel
7 aggrieved? I do not think that is staggeringly naive.
8 I think it is staggeringly naive to put it.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You need bother with that. I know that there
11 are figures that show that about three per cent of people
12 who might have good claims for damages for negligence take
13 advice, let alone take action; the other 97 per cent do
14 nothing.
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16 MR. MORRIS: If we go over the page in the middle of the page,
17 point 9?
18 A. Sorry, page?
19
20 Q. I am sorry, page 14, Peter Sutcliffe describes how
21 "Pressure was on to unload as fast as possible" -- sorry,
22 that is not a quote from his statement. "Peter Sutcliffe
23 describes how the pressure was on to unload as fast as
24 possible. Indeed, the sooner goods are stored the better"?
25 A. Yes.
26
27 Q. If there is pressure to unload as fast as possible,
28 I presume he is implying a safety concern ---
29 A. Yes.
30
31 Q. -- with that, would that concern you?
32 A. It could do, yes, it depends on the load and what speed
33 and how that pressure was applied.
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35 Q. Page 15, under point 13, you quoted the statement of
36 Nicholas McGill to say: "The store did not follow the
37 training procedures it was supposed to"?
38 A. Yes.
39
40 Q. Your response was: "I find it hard to believe that the
41 training room was never used"?
42 A. Yes, that is one of the things that he said in his
43 statement, yes.
44
45 Q. Yes. If the training procedures are not followed that are
46 supposed to be, would that concern you?
47 A. Yes, of course.
48
49 Q. In the next paragraph you said you found it "difficult to
50 accept" that the heating in the crew room, I cannot
51 remember the actual statement, but it think it was ---
52 A. Had been deliberately isolated.
53
54 Q. -- too low or something?
55 A. Oh, yes, I think, without going back to the statement,
56 I think the comment was that the manager had deliberately
57 withdrawn all the heating from the crew room and that it
58 was permanently freezing in there.
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60 Q. That is a possibility, is it not? Management want to
