Day 130 - 26 May 95 - Page 36
1 A. I am not denying it, I just do not know the
2 circumstances of why she should be there.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I can imagine someone at a local school
5 said: "Can you take someone for two or three days on work
6 experience?" and someone has said: "Yes", whether senior
7 management would approve of it or not.
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9 MR. MORRIS: This practice has not come to your attention that
10 young, not young children, but 15 year olds are -----
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Are there others?
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14 MR. MORRIS: Not on this.
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16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You say this practice ------
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18 MR. MORRIS: All right. (To the witness): You are not aware of
19 this happening?
20 A. No. You can see, I am a little surprised. Certainly,
21 when I was a Restaurant Manager, you do not hire anybody
22 under 16. I certainly would not have let a child, if you
23 like, work in the kitchen on work experience. It
24 seems -- I do not know the circumstances.
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26 Q. On page AW, the fifth one down -- I actually had not
27 noticed it before -- it says: "Occupation W/E" which,
28 I presume, is work experience?
29 A. I do not know.
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31 Q. So maybe it was something that was happening from time to
32 time at this store. If you go to AX, this is the first
33 one, it says: "Changing light bulb on counter and got
34 electric shock". I presume "FM" is Floor Manager?
35 A. Yes.
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37 Q. "A slight burn on left forefinger". This was in 1991 ----
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I will add an electric shock to Mr. Rampton's
40 two; you counted it as a burn, obviously, Mr. Rampton?
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42 MR. RAMPTON: I did, yes.
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44 MR. MORRIS: Was this before or after that -- this was before
45 the staff were told they should not be changing light
46 bulbs?
47 A. I cannot remember. Certainly in this memo from Richard
48 Roly and myself (which was 1991), we did spell out about
49 changing light bulbs and ensure isolation first.
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51 Q. Apparently, it is the day after that memo was sent out?
52 A. Was it? Let us assume they had not received it then!
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is just typical.
55 A. Again changing light bulbs is something that has been
56 really difficult to get over to people that ------
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am not surprised. Somewhere there is a
59 command not to change flourescent tubes. That I can begin
60 to understand just slightly more easily?
