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DREAMWORLD 7964620-3x2-700x467 Thunder River Rapids Ride (What Happened…

- - - - Ride got caught on a conveyor belt
        
        Conveyor Worn/Old
        
        Appropriate testing and inspections not carried out
        
        Water level too low causing circular raft to be caught
        
        Less than adequate testing and inspections
        
        Design failure
      - No safety shutoff enabling all the water to drain rapidly
      - Risk assessment of ride failed to address issue
        
        Lack of experience or expertise involved in risk assessment
        
        Technical experts not available or too expensive
        
        Impact between rafts not taken into account considering a significant risk to drowning present
        
        Organisational failure
      - Inadequate rescue protocols
        
        Lack of thought of possibility of accident
        
        Lack of time and cost
        
        Frequent staff changes
        
        Management strategy failure
      - Rescue training for staff less than adequate
        
        Time, resources and cost restrictions
        
        Management strategy failure
      - Dreamworld management more focused on production than safety
        
        Business costs clouded judgements
        
        Pressures from owner
        
        Management strategy failure
      - Ride focus is on ensuring volume of passengers cycle through the ride
        
        Time pressures
        
        Management strategy failure
      - Increased safety measures not considered even though Dreamworld has an obligation to have higher standards due to the volume of people attending its facilities
        
        Extremely diverse and culturally different people
        
        Management and organisational strategy failure
      - Speed of ride contributed to flipping of the raft
        
        Constant trade off between adrenaline rush (excitement of ride) and safety of ride - typically excitement level viewed favourably
        
        Management and organisational strategy failure
    - - Failure at operational stage
    - - Failure at operational stage
    - - No thinking outside the box for potential hazards
      - Design Failure
    - - Cheaper to copy than to create
        
        Cost of research to create ride concept from scratch
      - Design Failure
    - - Old machine components
        
        Failure at operation stage
    - - Failure at design stage
      - Management strategy failure
    - - Passengers cycled through for production reasons over safety
        
        Management strategy failure