Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 26


     
     1        What is the use to which this sheet of paper is put or was
     2        put?
     3        A.  The original document, of course, is a little larger
     4        than that and it is laminated.  It is posted on the
     5        restaurant notice board.  It is our Company policy, as we
     6        are required to have under the Health and Safety at Work
     7        Act, and it is also replicated in the Crew Handbook, the
     8        Employee handbook and various other documents.
     9
    10   Q.   We will look at those books later on, Mrs. Barnes, when we
    11        go back to general evidence.   Let me just read you what it
    12        says under "Electrical Equipment:  The Company is aware of
    13        the duty imposed by the Electricity at Work Regulations to
    14        maintain equipment in a safe condition and to ensure that
    15        only suitably qualified individuals undertake maintenance
    16        or repair of any electrical equipment.  No Company employ
    17        is allowed to carry out any repair or maintenance other
    18        than calibration unless they have satisfactorily completed
    19        the Applied Equipment Course.  Employees are only allowed
    20        to carry out those electrical repair and maintenance
    21        functions for which they have been trained.
    22
    23        Employees who work on electrical equipment have their own
    24        personal duty to follow Company training so as not to
    25        endanger themselves, fellow employees, customers or any
    26        other visitors.  All electrical equipment on Company
    27        premises, whether fixed or portable, will be checked by an
    28        independent electrical contractor at least once per annum
    29        and any necessary remedial work carried out to ensure that
    30        all equipment is maintained in a safe electrical condition.
    31
    32        A record of all maintenance and repair work carried out on
    33        any equipment will be provided by means of the equipment
    34        service history file.  It is the Store Manager's
    35        responsibility to ensure that the equipment service history
    36        file is correctly maintained.  No unauthorised electrical
    37        equipment is to be used or brought into Company premises.
    38        Electrical installations and equipment must not be tampered
    39        with".
    40
    41        This is in April 1991; does it differ in any respect from
    42        what the Company says about electricity nowadays as part of
    43        its policy?
    44        A.  It is slightly different than that, in that it is now
    45        laid out in a Health and Safety manual, but it is very much
    46        that same information.  It has just been laid out in a
    47        slightly different way now.
    48
    49   Q.   So does this thing still got on a board in a restaurant?
    50        A.  No, we do not have that any more.  We have a one page 
    51        policy statement committing ourselves to safety.  It is 
    52        backed up with the Health and Safety manual which is laid 
    53        out in risk assessment format with the control procedures
    54        under each hazard.
    55
    56   Q.   I am looking at it now.  Even in this A3 or B4, whatever
    57        the size is, I am bound to say it looks like quite a heavy
    58        read under a lamination on a notice board; did you have any
    59        impression that maybe people were not reading it?
    60        A.  Certainly I doubt it was read on the notice board.  It

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