Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 66
1 MR. RAMPTON: You are pushing at an open door there, as far as I
2 am concerned.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You are asking unnecessary questions of a
5 witness who certainly is not assisting your case on this
6 point.
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8 MS. STEEL (To the witness): But it also applies to electric
9 shocks, does it not? If people do not have any serious or
10 anything that might be lasting effect from an electric
11 shock, they probably would not put it in the Accident Book?
12 A. No, I said with an electric shock they would put it in
13 the Accident Book, because I think most people through
14 common sense realise that an electric shock could be more
15 serious.
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17 Q. The shocks that you were referring to, I mean, you said you
18 were not aware of the bun toaster giving electric shocks
19 for six consecutive Saturdays, but if it was happening --
20 would you accept that it might have been happening once a
21 month or something like that?
22 A. If it happened on any more than a one off occasion, and
23 even on a one off occasion we would shut the equipment down
24 and get an engineer in to fix it and make sure -- you know,
25 find out where the electric shock was coming from. I mean,
26 we would at times work on these pieces of equipment as
27 Managers.
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29 Q. Do you recall getting in the engineers for the bun toaster?
30 A. Not specifically. I can only recall what the procedure
31 would have been and the likely sort of practice that we
32 would employ at that time.
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34 Q. Which would be to either repair it yourself as a Manager or
35 to get a crew member to do it?
36 A. If it was an electrical thing we would generally -- if
37 it was any more than changing a plug or changing a bulb on
38 a toaster, then we did not have anybody in the restaurant
39 specifically who had enough knowledge to do any more than
40 that, therefore, we would call out a local electrician or
41 the service company, First in Service.
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43 Q. So if the shock was caused by wiring coming loose in a
44 plug, or something like that, then a crew member might be
45 instructed to sort it out themselves?
46 A. More likely a Manager.
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48 Q. Right, but it could have been crew?
49 A. I believe at the time that there would have been one
50 specific crew member who may have done, who had experience
51 of that who may have dealt with plugs and things like
52 that.
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54 Q. You were aware of Mr. Alimi changing plugs and things like
55 that?
56 A. He may have done. I cannot specifically remember it,
57 but he may have done.
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59 Q. There may have been other crew as well?
60 A. It was not like, you know, we just went: "You go and
