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1 Restaurants Limited".
2 A. It is the policy statement that is displayed in all
3 restaurants.
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5 Q. I was going to ask you first of all if you knew what the
6 Health and Safety Executive meant by the words "mission
7 statement"?
8 A. I think that is the company's vision of where they want
9 to be on health and safety. It just embodies what the
10 company's view is on health and safety.
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12 Q. It may be a question that neither you nor I would know the
13 answer to, Mr. Atherton. So far as can you tell does it
14 differ from what we have in front of us now or is it the
15 same sort of thing? Do you want a legible copy?
16 A. No. I think the document you possibly referred me to
17 earlier, which was done in November 1991, outlined what he
18 company's health and safety policy was and what our mission
19 was.
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21 Q. I am not asking him to read it. I am asking him to look at
22 the document and tell us whether he knew whether that was a
23 mission statement or not.
24 A. I do not know what they were meaning by a "mission
25 statement" but I think it would cover what their meaning
26 was. There was a direction and a policy on health and
27 safety within McDonald's at that time. So we knew what our
28 mission was which was to ensure the health and safety of
29 our employees. We also knew how we were going to do that
30 because we stated it in a policy document and also within
31 this.
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33 MR. RAMPTON: Thank you very much, Mr. Atherton.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am afraid you may have to go to Scotland on
36 Friday after all!
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38 I am grateful to everyone for being forbearing in staying
39 late. We obviously do not want to stay in court a minute
40 more than we have to now, but what about tomorrow?
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42 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it is a matter for your Lordship. There
43 is a spare day tomorrow. One possibility is just to
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are you up to that?
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48 MS. STEEL: Yes, I think so.
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50 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will resume at 10.30 tomorrow.
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