Day 127 - 23 May 95 - Page 27
1 is one of the reasons why it also went into the Crew
2 Handbook so it could be covered at orientation.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If that is folded in half down the central
5 column, will each half be about A4 then? Because if
6 Mrs. Brinley-Codd could fold it down the middle gap, it can
7 be quite readily photocopied here and now on the machine.
8 A. If it helps at all, the same passage is on page 754
9 because that is the extract from the Personnel and
10 Procedures manual.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is helpful. In fact, I have already
13 marked it.
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15 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, so did I.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So we must have looked at it before but,
18 nevertheless, if you could just make about four or five
19 copies of both sides. We will carry on with the evidence
20 while you do that.
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22 MR. RAMPTON (To the witness): Please turn to 766, Mrs. Barnes,
23 which is a memo dated 29th June 1992 from Margaret Harmer
24 to Restaurant Managers, copied to you amongst others. She
25 writes: "Due to the increasing amount of paper work and
26 documentation on health and safety, I write to advise you
27 that you should set up a restaurant health and safety file
28 to hold relevant information". Then she says they have
29 drawn up an index which I think one can see on the next
30 page, 767.
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32 That was, it appears, a new measure, was it, Mrs. Barnes?
33 A. It was and it is a measure that we have continued.
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35 Q. What goes in the health and safety file?
36 A. Very much what is written there on the index. It is
37 really -- it is live documentation. So, it would be a copy
38 of an FT5 which is a form that we use to report RIDDOR
39 accidents, or it would be the health and safety memos so
40 that they are kept all in one place so they are easy to
41 refer to, or it could be Environmental Health Officer
42 correspondence from their visits, or, you know, as you can
43 see, lift certificates and so forth.
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45 Q. All those categories of documents which we can see written
46 on that page -- you will have to forgive me, Mrs. Barnes,
47 I am going as quickly as I possibly can for Mr. Morris'
48 sake -- would be expected to go into the health and safety
49 file, yes?
50 A. Yes.
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52 Q. Including anything under 14 "miscellaneous", I
53 assume, which was relevant to health and safety?
54 A. Yes. We have extended the index a little since. There
55 are fewer in the Miscellaneous.
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57 Q. I am sorry that these documents are not in chronological
58 order, but it is easier to go through them in page order
59 than to dot about. 768.
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