Dreamworld's owners are pleased with the June figures, despite being down 30 per cent on last year. Photo: AAP
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland has issued Dreamworld with seven improvement notices and three prohibition notices relating to safety at the beleaguered theme park.
The notices relate to staff safety protocols and not to visitor safety.
For visitor safety, Dreamworld returned a clean bill of health – none of its rides or amusements were deemed unsafe for visitors.
The findings, released by Dreamworld, did not include findings on the Thunder River Rapids ride on which Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozbeh Araghi were killed alongside Cindy Low in October.
The investigation into that tragedy is ongoing and Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is yet to make any findings in relation to the permanently closed ride.
Dreamworld CEO Craig Davidson said the breaches involved procedural matters, paperwork improvements and the safety of staff and maintenance workers.
He said all the notices would be addressed before Dreamworld and its water park, White Water World, reopened.
In addition to the safety audit, he announced further checks would be carried out.
This would comprise a multi-tiered review by Dreamworld’s own engineers, an international theme park safety expert and leading Australian amusement ride engineers, Pitt & Sherry.
One of the rafts involved in the incident is taken away to be examined. Photo: Network Ten
Both a spokesperson for Dreamworld and for Worksafe Health and Safety Queensland confirmed to The New Daily the safety audit only uncovered the above misdemeanours for staff wellbeing and none visitor wellbeing.
In short, both confirmed all Dreamworld rides – except for the still under investigation Thunder River Rapids ride – were safe for visitors.
Dreamworld also announced that Royal Life Saving Queensland would be auditing pools and lifesaving procedures at White Water World this week.
– with ABC