Day 156 - 17 Jul 95 - Page 08

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is what I meant.  But if you can stick
     2        with a few questions, do so; if it is unavoidable towards
     3        the end of your cross-examination, then there we are.
     4        (To the witness):  As I understand it, one box weighed
     5        20lbs ---
     6        A.  I cannot remember exact figures.
     7
     8   Q.   -- or thereabouts.  The 20lbs figure appears in the
     9        statements somewhere anyway, but would it be difficult for
    10        someone to lift and carry more than one box?  What do you
    11        think was the safe and appropriate number of boxes,
    12        regardless of any instructions which were given to lift, we
    13        are talking of burgers now, I think ---
    14        A.  Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   -- frozen burgers?
    17        A.  I would say a maximum of two, maximum, depending on the
    18        build of the person.
    19
    20   Q.   So for some people it might be sensible only to carry one?
         A.  That is correct, sir.
    22
    23   Q.   You would not like the idea of anyone carrying more than
    24        two?
    25        A.  That is correct, sir.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes, thank you.
    28
    29   MS. STEEL:  Were you always overseeing all the unloading and
    30        loading?
    31        A.  Not me personally all of the time.  It would depend on
    32        the actual Shift Manager on that particular day that we got
    33        deliveries.
    34
    35   Q.   So it would be overseen by one Manager of some sort then?
    36        A.  Yes.
    37
    38   Q.   You have said that there were gloves available to the crew?
    39        A.  That is correct.
    40
    Q.   You were aware, obviously, that Mr. Magee said there were
    42        not any gloves available.  Where were the gloves kept?
    43        A.  Where the deliveries were entered there was like a
    44        little rack where we used to keep the jackets, the gloves,
    45        by the entrance to where the deliveries arrived.
    46
    47   Q.   Where the jackets were kept?
    48        A.  That is correct.
    49
    50   Q.   They being the environment/index.html">litter patrol jackets? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   So there were not any specific jackets for the freezer; I
    54        think you said that they used the environment/index.html">litter ---
    55        A.  That is right, yes.
    56
    57   Q.   -- jackets.  Did all the crew in the store have their
    58        attention drawn to these gloves?
    59        A.  Well, as I have stated previously, once I had achieved
    60        the delivery team that I had, it was the same sort of four,