Plan Of Action

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

Our Current Plan Of Action

The whole idea behind this scheme was to examine all the aspects of safety from a practical point of view. There are plenty of theoretical text books concerning funfair and event safety, but if theory worked like it is supposed to then there would never be any accidents. Obviously somewhere between theory and practice something goes amiss. The chances are that the problem is human beings. Being imperfect we cannot implement theoretical plans perfectly and so end up with an problem.

Whilst we cannot remove humans from the equation, we can examine where they slip up. This is not intended to be a criticism of the current safety standards, which are in fact pretty good, nor is it intended to be a criticism of any of the inspection bodies, although it may in part be critical of some aspects of the inspectors or organisations in question.

Instead it is intended to be a look at what, from our experience, and the experience of other operators we work with, can be done to improve safety from a practical point of view. It is not intended to be a scheme with set parameters, where evidence will be gathered, analysed and then new plans to act upon this evidence drawn up. We intend to implement safety improvements as soon as it is practicable to do so. Ideally this would be the very instant a new safer system was identified, but in reality it does take time to change existing work procedures, acquire new test equipment and have people trained to operate such systems and equipment.

We intend to start with a look at safety in general. How systems are applied, staff trained, electrical safety and so on. As things progress we hope to move into more specialised avenues, so for example whilst electrical and mechanical safety would cover all of our attractions, we would look in depth at say, helter skelters, and examine what specifically can be improved on that attraction. Currently safety standards are quite a broad stroke covering everything equally. The fact that specific advisory notices are issued on a regular basis indicates that one size does not fit all, and perhaps a more narrow focus may pay dividends.

First Phase

General Safety

General Standards

Electrical Safety

Mechanical Safety

NDT Testing

ADIPS Inspections

Approved Inspectors

Staff Training

Fire Safety

Site Safety

The Environment

The site safety section will differ from he others as it will be subdivided into a number of other categories due to its complexity. To have listed each individual section of site safety would have made the web site menu unreasonably large.

Second Phase

Attraction Specific Safety

Adult Rides

Childrens Rides

Games Units

Catering Operations

The second phase items will be further subdivided into specific attractions, IE the children’s rides category would be further broken down into flying chairs, toyset, helter skelter and so on. The reasoning behind this harks back to the earlier statement that one size does not fit all, and specific attractions may have specific requirements that are not covered by general policies, and may not have been addressed by advisory notices.