Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 54
1 danger, or complaint is said to be. So, I am not
2 suggesting you take long on that, but you must ask a
3 question or two to make it clear.
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5 MR. MORRIS: You have said it does not pose a real safety hazard
6 because people are not actually walking underneath it. So,
7 is the situation that it is, every so often it is causing
8 dripping onto the floor?
9 A. It drips onto the floor. When it drips onto the floor
10 it drips onto the floor underneath the piece of equipment.
11 The only major problem it is to us is that when you take
12 the grills out to clean behind them each night there is a
13 big puddle of grease on the floor. It is a mess problem
14 rather than a health and safety problem because it cannot
15 leak out of the front because of the way the trough leans
16 back.
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18 Q. But the point is that sometimes the grease that is falling
19 underneath the equipment can come out onto the walking
20 surface and it will have to be cleaned up?
21 A. I seriously doubt that. It would have to be an
22 exceptionally busy day or you would have to not empty the
23 grease trap for, perhaps, two or three days because at the
24 end of the day there is not sufficient grease in there to
25 actually reach the four feet underneath the grill. By the
26 time it actually reaches the floor it is cold anyway and it
27 just goes to a sort of fudge substance.
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29 Q. Coming onto the chicken vats -- forget the RCD connection
30 -- one of the chicken vats had a particular problem or has
31 -- I do not know if it still has -- a particular problem
32 of cutting out the actual gas dripping out?
33 A. That is incorrect.
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35 Q. Say, for example, last year?
36 A. That is incorrect. It is not possible for the gas to
37 sort of cut out to one grill and -- or to one VAT, I beg
38 your pardon.
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40 Q. Just something I missed out, I am sorry: The food that you
41 would get in from other stores, that would include shake
42 mix, meat, fries, chicken and buns, would it?
43 A. It would be exceptionally rare to run out of those
44 items but, if necessary, we would do it, yes, and they
45 would be transported in the appropriate form of transport.
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47 Q. You said once a fortnight you were bringing in when you ran
48 out of things?
49 A. Yes, once a fortnight is when we ran out of stock, not
50 necessarily frozen stock or refrigerated stock. It would
51 be exceptionally rare to run out of frozen stock because
52 you get a delivery every two days and most of the products
53 have a shelf life of at least three months. So you can
54 order sufficient stocks to last two days.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: How often are the deliveries?
57 A. Deliveries are every two days.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Back to the chicken vats: The chicken vats were
60 affected by the RCD in the same way as the grills?
