Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 58
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes. (To the witness): Moving on to maintenance
3 and repair: Jagon Flint, you have said: "he began working
4 as a crew member at which time he had a certificate in
5 basic electrical safety". Was that certificate contained
6 in his personnel file?
7 A. No, when he started working for us he did not hold a
8 certificate in basic electrical safety. He gained that as
9 a result of going on the first day of the AEC course which
10 is the electrical safety day.
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12 Q. When did he go on that AEC course?
13 A. I do not know -- two, three years ago, perhaps more.
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15 Q. He joined the Company in 1988?
16 A. He did, yes.
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18 Q. He joined as crew, yes?
19 A. He did.
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21 Q. You have put: "He completed First Aid and Safety at Work
22 courses". They were Company courses, were they?
23 A. No -- done as part of his college course.
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25 Q. When was that?
26 A. He started his college course about a month and a half
27 before he joined us in 1988.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment.
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31 MR. MORRIS: Subsequently ------
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a moment, please.
34 (To the witness): What was his college course?
35 A. He started a course in -- the first one he did was
36 electrical engineering and he subsequently qualified as a
37 refrigeration engineer as well.
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39 Q. What was that for? Was that as part of his work at
40 McDonald's or day leave or something like that?
41 A. No, it was just something -- he is hoping to set up his
42 own business as a .....
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44 Q. So that was his own enterprise, was it?
45 A. Yes, he was working for us while he was at college to
46 help pay for his way through college, basically.
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48 Q. Yes.
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50 MR. MORRIS: When did he qualify as an electrical engineer?
51 A. About two years after 1988, so around 1990. I think it
52 was electrical maintenance rather than electrical
53 engineering as such.
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55 Q. You said about managers repairing toasters if they have
56 completed an appropriate training course. You have
57 repaired toasters; is that correct?
58 A. They do not need repairing. It is not a -- "repair" is
59 the wrong word, "replace parts of" is a better word like,
60 for instance, replacing a buzzer or a timer on a toaster.
