Day 168 - 03 Oct 95 - Page 41


     
     1        whatever?
     2        A.  Yes, if there was something wrong with a piece of
     3        equipment, a specific piece of equipment, then the service
     4        company for that piece of equipment would be called out,
     5        but that was rare.  That would be perhaps once every month
     6        or month and a half, that there would be a specific problem
     7        with a piece of equipment.  The problem would be with the
     8        RCD generally.  And so, if when we reset all of the
     9        switches the RCD came back on again, then we would just log
    10        the event, and when they came on their weekly or by-weekly
    11        visit they would make a note of it.
    12
    13   Q.   So -- sorry, forget the word, when I say "so" it does not
    14        necessarily mean it automatically follows, but -----
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is fairly straightforward, is it not, that
    17        every so often the trip went?
    18        A.  That is correct.
    19
    20   Q.   About once a month or every month and a half, you would
    21        find when you did your re-plugging equipment check that it
    22        was a fault in the piece of equipment?
    23        A.  That is correct.
    24
    25   Q.   Then that would be serviced or replaced.  If it was
    26        serviced, it was service by the service company which dealt
    27        with that piece of equipment.  But over this period of nine
    28        or 10 months it was not generally a piece of equipment
    29        which was responsible, it was the RCD system itself.  If
    30        that happened, you called out the company which would
    31        service the RCD.  You are saying that if it happened in the
    32        morning, they would be there about mid-day; if it happened,
    33        say, at 6 o'clock in the evening, they would come that
    34        evening, but if it happened in the later evening around
    35        10 o'clock, they would come about 5.00 the following
    36        morning.  That is your evidence?
    37        A.  That is correct.
    38
    39   Q.   In the meantime, the fuse would be removed so that you
    40        could carry on business.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  So at some periods in this 10 month period Clayton
    43        Construction Limited were being called out every day, like
    44        you said if it was -----
    45        A.  It would be, say, a couple of days in a row they would
    46        be called out, or we would call them out at, yes, the one
    47        day, then the following day and then, perhaps, we would
    48        call them the following Monday because there would be a
    49        problem there and then we would not call them again for
    50        another three weeks because there would not be a problem. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Of course, all these details would be in the equipment 
    53        maintenance  -----
    54        A.  The main details are with Clayton Construction because
    55        they were not actually charging us for the visits because
    56        it was their fault, not us, so they were not charging us
    57        for each visit, but they had a log they actually kept of
    58        the visits that were specific to the RCD system.
    59
    60   Q.   But you would keep a record of that in your equipment

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