Day 131 - 06 Jun 95 - Page 61

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   It would involve you looking at it
     2        overnight.
     3
     4   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not know if Mr. Purslow has one at home?  If
     5        not, perhaps he could be allowed to extract that one from
     6        the bundle and put a treasury tag in it and take it home
     7        with him?
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Perhaps you would make a mental note of
    10        that?  Do not mark it, because it will go back in the
    11        witness bundle when you return it.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  If he might be allowed to put yellow flags in.
    14
    15   MR. MORRIS:  He could mark that one and that one could be
    16        replaced.
    17
    18   THE WITNESS:  I will make separates notes.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  By all means, make notes if you want.  I will
         say quite openly that the reason I do that is that it might
    22        be (and I stress might) a helpful starting point for me in
    23        relation to the question of health and safety at
    24        McDonald's.  I would not in the future want to treat it as
    25        a useful starting point for what was going on in 1989 and
    26        1990 if, in fact, significant changes had been made in 1990
    27        and the interviews and observations which led to that
    28        report.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  There is of course a lot of comment about what
    31        they found when they got there.  What there is not a lot of
    32        indication is when that was put in place.  Mr. Purslow may
    33        know.
    34
    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is my point.  (To the witness)  Where
    36        you see a comment -- and I am thinking of favourable
    37        comments at the moment -- what I would like you to do, if
    38        you can, is look for anything upon which they comment
    39        favourably which you think may have come in since about the
    40        middle of 1990; in other words, so that favourable comment
         might not have been available if one was looking in the
    42        autumn of 1989, for instance.
    43        A.  Certainly.  I think I would be able to identify that,
    44        because a lot of the McDonald's systems are up and running
    45        and existing.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   If you read it through, either you will be
    48        able to help or you will not, Mr. Purslow.
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  Can you just explain what performance standards are 
    51        and how they are helpful in terms of taking safety 
    52        seriously? 
    53        A.  I am sorry, what are you referring to there, first?  Is
    54        it performance -----
    55
    56   Q.   Is there a particular role that -----
    57        A.  Performance of individual crew members, you mean?
    58
    59   Q.   No, I mean in terms of particular jobs or particular
    60        risks.  If we look at page 852 -----