Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 41
1 whatever?
2 A. Yes, if there was something wrong with a piece of
3 equipment, a specific piece of equipment, then the service
4 company for that piece of equipment would be called out,
5 but that was rare. That would be perhaps once every month
6 or month and a half, that there would be a specific problem
7 with a piece of equipment. The problem would be with the
8 RCD generally. And so, if when we reset all of the
9 switches the RCD came back on again, then we would just log
10 the event, and when they came on their weekly or by-weekly
11 visit they would make a note of it.
12
13 Q. So -- sorry, forget the word, when I say "so" it does not
14 necessarily mean it automatically follows, but -----
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is fairly straightforward, is it not, that
17 every so often the trip went?
18 A. That is correct.
19
20 Q. About once a month or every month and a half, you would
21 find when you did your re-plugging equipment check that it
22 was a fault in the piece of equipment?
23 A. That is correct.
24
25 Q. Then that would be serviced or replaced. If it was
26 serviced, it was service by the service company which dealt
27 with that piece of equipment. But over this period of nine
28 or 10 months it was not generally a piece of equipment
29 which was responsible, it was the RCD system itself. If
30 that happened, you called out the company which would
31 service the RCD. You are saying that if it happened in the
32 morning, they would be there about mid-day; if it happened,
33 say, at 6 o'clock in the evening, they would come that
34 evening, but if it happened in the later evening around
35 10 o'clock, they would come about 5.00 the following
36 morning. That is your evidence?
37 A. That is correct.
38
39 Q. In the meantime, the fuse would be removed so that you
40 could carry on business.
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42 MR. MORRIS: So at some periods in this 10 month period Clayton
43 Construction Limited were being called out every day, like
44 you said if it was -----
45 A. It would be, say, a couple of days in a row they would
46 be called out, or we would call them out at, yes, the one
47 day, then the following day and then, perhaps, we would
48 call them the following Monday because there would be a
49 problem there and then we would not call them again for
50 another three weeks because there would not be a problem.
51
52 Q. Of course, all these details would be in the equipment
53 maintenance -----
54 A. The main details are with Clayton Construction because
55 they were not actually charging us for the visits because
56 it was their fault, not us, so they were not charging us
57 for each visit, but they had a log they actually kept of
58 the visits that were specific to the RCD system.
59
60 Q. But you would keep a record of that in your equipment
