Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 24
1 call it tuition on electrical safety.
2
3 Q. The last sentence of that paragraph which is underlined
4 says this: "From January 1st next year, 1992, no employee
5 will be considered competent to carry out maintenance or
6 repair of electrical equipment unless they have completed
7 the revised AEC", which you have told us now includes
8 specific electrical tuition, "or the old AEC plus the part
9 day course on electrical safety"?
10 A. Yes, that is the seminar I referred to that was rolled
11 out to all the restaurant managers and the supervisors,
12 that part day seminar on electrical safety.
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14 Q. So somebody who had done an AEC, according to the old
15 lines, that wanted or was needed to do electrical work
16 would have to go and do this part day course?
17 A. That is correct.
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19 Q. Then please turn over a few pages to 723, still in 1991,
20 again from Frank Frost dated 25th June 1991, enclosing to
21 Store Managers and licensees a sticker which you see, do
22 you not, on the right-hand side?
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. On the left-hand side pointed at by an arrow where it is to
26 go; is that right?
27 A. Yes, that is right.
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29 Q. I cannot read it in my copy. Is this something that the
30 law required now?
31 A. It was not something that was specified in law, but
32 again the Electricity at Work Regulations were based on
33 risk assessment, and I believe this refers to our air
34 conditioning units which have three phase electricity to
35 them. So, we wanted to make sure that they had plenty of
36 information on it -- on them about the dangers involved.
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38 Q. I wondered about that because what Frank Frost says is:
39 "Please position and secure same on the main electrical
40 panel"?
41 A. I am sorry, that is my mistake.
42
43 Q. Yes, it looks something like ------
44 A. We did do something similar with the air conditioning
45 as well.
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47 Q. What is the function of the main electrical panel in the
48 store?
49 A. The electrical panel has all the trip switches in it.
50 We have always had miniature circuit breakers in our
51 restaurants, and that is where they are kept in the
52 electrical panel. So, if a piece of equipment tripped out,
53 that is where the manager would look to reset it.
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55 Q. Do all the pieces of equipment in the restaurant pipe into
56 or go through this box?
57 A. Generally, yes, although I believe in some of the older
58 restaurants the set-up is slightly different.
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60 Q. Then, Mrs. Barnes, if we can turn on to page 734 to
