The company that operate Dreamworld will today learn its punishment for the Thunder River Rapids ride tragedy, which killed four people in 2016.
Ardent Leisure will be sentenced in Southport Magistrates Court on Monday, and is facing a maximum penalty of $4.5 million after the company pleaded guilty in July to charges relating to failing to comply with its health and safety duty, and exposing individuals to a risk of serious injury or death.
Queensland’s work health and safety prosecutor charged the company with three Category 2 charges pursuant to section 32 of Queensland Work Health and Safety Act 2011 on July 21, five months after the coroner handed down the findings into the tragedy that claimed the lives of Cindy Low, Kate Goodchild, her brother Luke Dorsett and his partner Roozi Araghi.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of $1.5 million.
The four people died after they were thrown from their raft in the unloading area.
They became either trapped or were thrown into the water underneath a mechanical conveyor at the Gold Coast theme park in October 2016.
Ardent Leisure chairman Dr Gary Weiss and theme parks division chief executive John Osborne said there had been “considerable change” at Dreamworld, as had been acknowledged by the coroners report.
“Dreamworld has taken substantive and proactive steps to improve safety across the entire park and continues to enhance existing systems and practices, as well as adopt news ones, as we develop and implement our safety case in accordance with the Queensland Government’s new major amusement park safety regulations,” a statement issued earlier in the year read.
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