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My understanding is the set builds were found to be a fire hazard or in breach of an updated fire code, hence their hastily removal

You don’t think anyone is shifting blame? Haha The ride manager stressed yesterday that all operators were fully trained on all emergency/estop procedures, including stressing she spend extra time with the junior ride off in training and in her opinion they didn’t even press the emergency stop button “at any time”. If that’s not saying “it’s their fault. They could have stopped this” I don’t know what is. She made no acknowlgement of an unsafe or lacking safety system whatsoever, whereas all the non-DW employees last week mentioned this as an overriding theme. DW Spin. That’s all it is.

I’m sure I’m not the only one that has noticed that there has been a “turn” in the narrative & story since the witnesses who continue to work for DW take the stand. It reeks to me of DW’s lawyers trying to shift the entire blame to the 2 operators. Well I’m sorry but that doesn’t fly with me at all. The senior ride Manager believes the e-stop wasn’t pressed at all ? Did the police investigator not give timings for when it was pushed in terms of reaction time to the incident just last week?

Interesting we’ve had 2 safety people interviewed, one said he was doing the job of 5 people, the other saying DWs safety culture is sound... not hard to guess which one still works there...

Yeah merch was there 2 weeks ago when I went through

So a senior maintenance supervisor who had worked on the ride for many years didn’t know there different timing to the e-stop buttons, and had never pressed them. If they don’t test the e-stops regularly, how do they know if they even work? —————————————— DREAMWORLD had stopped an alarm from sounding when the water pumps stopped more than a year prior to the disaster, the inquest has heard. It was the failure of the south pump for the third time on October 25, 2016 which led to a raft flipping and killing four people. A policy which was reviewed in June 2015, showed a crossed out paragraph about the prior alarm. Crossed out from a policy document was: “(An alarm will sound) when the main water pumps stop for this ride. If the pump stops for this ride then there is the potential for rafts to become a hazard to guests riding them. The rafts are very heavy and there are a lot of underwater obstacles that could cause the rafts to flip or entrap a guest”. The policy had been changed to include these words instead: “The Rapid Ride alarm will be sounded if there is a potential risk to any guest or staff member in the ride area — example: a guest or staff member has fallen in the water,” the police said. “This is a change from previous where the alarm would be activated due to the water pumps stopping.” —————————————— DREAMWORLD was operating behind budget in the months as a direction that “repairs and maintenance spending needs to stop” given just five months before the October 2016 disaster, an inquest has heard. Dreamworld safety manager Mark Thompson was shown the minutes from a meeting for the executive safety team in March 2016 detailing information about the park’s financial position. “Revenue is up but profit is down, cut backs are now being enforced,” the document said. “Repairs and maintenance spending needs to stop.”

Fair enough. Seems a little ridiculous given its largely a charity based event, but as I said, I reckon it’d work better with a Supanova tie-in at Broadbeach anyway

Less than half price annual passes until June 30 will do that haha

Nice promo/Ad for DCR during state of origin - intro from the presenter and then played the full trailer with all the characters etc.

Whilst I don’t know the reason, I doubt licensing is it. Disney has owned the rights to the Star Wars licence for 6 years, a period of time that coincided with Dreamworld having a commerical licence agreement with Dreamworks. If they inexplicably decided after 6 years they didn’t want a glorified fan club to run events in a theme park with a competing licence associated with them it wouldn’t be a case of “oh you can do one more” it would be a “it ceases now”. Think the mouse-house has bigger things on its mind than a theme park in Australia. They may have just had a better location open up, or decided to focus on other things. I imagine tying it into supernova or comic-con would be more successful.

2 boats colliding at a conveyor on a water ride. Media would have a field day with that... as for reserves paid seating for the front row at tiger island - pathetic Somehow don’t think Dreamworks would have signed off on that, given the apparent trouble with getting Trolls Village off the ground due to licensing/approvals for dreamworks

The empire is defeated...

I am no theme park CEO, but i can pretty safely say if I was one and one of my rides was decommissioned after people died on it I would sure as hell make certain any trace of said ride was removed from my social media feeds...

Pretty much agree with your thoughts @Levithian i don’t blame the ride ops - it’s management. Not providing adequate training, or adequate safety systems/policies. The fact they haven’t had emergency response training SINCE 4 people died in the Park is utterly unbelievable. Back in my retail management days, I had a staff member break an ankle when an incorrectly stored pallet fell onto his leg. I used that opportunity to document and develop a new safety plan, and every single person in the business had to read documentation, show a physical understanding of it, and sign to say they understood and took accountability for it. This is commonplace in many industries - to think it isn’t in use in a theme park is borderline terrifying.

RAFT COLLISION HAS HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY JUNE 22, 2018 AN electrician did not attend the second failure of the south pump on the day of the Thunder River Rapids Ride disaster, the Dreamworld inquest has heard. Dreamworld mechanic Matthew Robertson has told the inquest it was the usual practice for a mechanic and electrician to be rostered on each day as park technicians. One the day of the disaster, which killed four people when a water pump failed just after 2pm on October 25, 2016, two mechanics had been rostered on to attend any breakdowns that day. The disaster occurred after the south pump failed for the third time that day. Mr Robertson said when the first breakdown occurred at 11.50am the mechanics called in help from an electrician who then showed them how to fix the pump”. “They (electricians) were distracted, there were other issues electrically in other aspects of the park,” he said. “I thought that if we knew and were allowed to reset them it would speed the process up.” When the pump failed again at 1.09pm, Mr Robertson went to the ride with a fellow mechanic. Mr Robertson said he remained at the Thunder River Rapids Ride control panel when the other mechanic went to another part of the ride. “I’m not 100 per cent if it was communicated to me before or after (that he) attended the (pump) drive room,” he said. “He returned and said he had reset the pumps.” Mr Robertson said the south pump then started and the pair signed off the maintenance log. He said he was asked by ride supervisor Sarah Cotter about what they were going to do about the pump dropping out. Mr Robertson told the inquest he told her it was their policy to shut the ride down for the day if the same fault happened for a third time. He said he had been told that policy a week or two earlier. A THUNDER River Rapids Ride operator was terminated from Dreamworld after two rafts collided on the conveyor almost two years before the disaster, an inquest has heard. No one was injured in the November 2014 incident which saw the man fired almost two years before the terrifying tragedy which killed four people. Barrister Steven Whybrow, acting for the families of Ms Goodchild and Mr Dorsett, this morning read from the employee’s termination letter. The letter said after a pump shut down on the ride, “a raft containing guests has bottomed out at the top of the conveyor due to water supply”. “An additional raft containing guests has then collided with it and continued to be pushed by the conveyor until it was shut down,” Mr Whybrow read from the letter. Ride operator Chloe Brix, who has worked on the Thunder River Rapids Ride since 2013, said operators were never told about the incident or debriefed on safety procedures following the 2014 incident. Ms Brix said she only found out about the other employees termination through gossip. #Dreamworld inquest: Matthew Robertson says there was a new system installed on the Thunder River Rapids ride that would shut down the conveyor belt if rafts got too close, but there were “issues” with the sensors @SkyNewsAust 11:00 AM - Jun 22, 2018 · Gold Coast,

Nothing shits me more than muppets who shout “bully” at people who just disagree with them or point out an error in their argument. All that does it then diminish, downplay & dilute the true seriousness of real bullying which is a massive issue.

Yeah same guy I was referring to

Some guy on FB commenting on one of the articles claims to have been a senior ride op on TRR for over a decade and is adamant that an e-stop button is in place at the unload point that stops the conveyor. He says this is a different e-stop to the one at the main controls and the one down the walkway near the conveyor itself - so essentially a third e-stop. He states it was in place when he left the business a few years back so was there unless removed

I have read previously that MW regularly does evac training on rides, and I believe emergency services have also been involved in these drills for high rescue practice

He ‘now’ works at WWW. He didn’t back then. And again, whilst I believe ride ops operating water based rides should be CPR trained, I don’t necessarily believe that means all staff at WWW are. Life guards clearly, but not sure if staff on the towers are.

Well it’s the Funhouse thread, of course.

Well as long as you feel more inclined to buy a car after your visit here tonight, then I guess we’re all leaving happy.

Last time I tried to use that code somewhere I was pulled into a dark office and frisked by a overweight sweaty rent-a-guard named Stanley. I wont fall for that again...

Just a friendly suggestion @razza1987 maybe just quote the relevant part, especially when the quoted post is as large as that. You asked about clinicians and I had to re-read that whole thing to find the context when you could have just quoted that one paragraph.