Day 131 - 06 Jun 95 - Page 18
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. -- enjoin their employees to wear "slip resistant shoes"?
4 A. I think that is reasonable wording to put in that sort
5 of document.
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7 Q. Can you think that they might improve on what they tell
8 their employees to put on their feet?
9 A. I think "slip resistant" is a reasonable compromise.
10 Obviously, you do not want someone to come with a pair of
11 shiny new shoes, and so on and so forth. You want
12 something that gives them some grip; and slip resistant is
13 probably the best way of putting it so that it can be
14 understood in lay terms.
15
16 Q. I mentioned protective clothing. Are you familiar with the
17 kinds of protective clothing which McDonald's supplies for
18 use for a particular operation, such as changing the
19 shortening?
20 A. Yes, I am.
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22 Q. Also, I think, for cleaning the grills?
23 A. Yes.
24
25 Q. What is your view of the adequacy of the equipment,
26 protective equipment, which McDonald's supplies for those
27 tasks?
28 A. I would have thought it entirely appropriate.
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30 Q. Are there any other tasks performed in the store, so far as
31 you are aware, for which protective equipment is necessary
32 but is not supplied or available in McDonald's?
33 A. Not as far as I am aware.
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35 Q. From time to time, Mr. Purslow, as I am sure you know,
36 people go into the cold store to get out frozen food?
37 A. Indeed.
38
39 Q. Does that require, in your view, that there should be
40 special gloves available for handling the cartons or the
41 food?
42 A. Only if you are going to work in the storeroom and
43 start stocktaking, or something along those lines. If you
44 what you are going to do is to go and fetch an outer --
45 which is probably a cardboard carton, basically -- of
46 burgers, or something along those lines, I would not think
47 it necessary to put on gloves, any more than one would do
48 so if you were taking something out of a domestic freezer.
49 It is just a fairly straightforward operation.
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51 Q. Keeping that file in front of you, Mr. Purslow, there are
52 some documents I would like you to have a quick look at in
53 a moment. First, I would like to ask you a question which
54 does not require a document. McDonald's, we are told by
55 Mrs. Barnes, now have safety circles, and that they
56 instituted those, at least in part, as a result of the HSE
57 examination of their business, which I am sure you have
58 read?
59 A. Yes.
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