Health and Safety June Update

Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd (Merlin) pleads guilty over Alton Towers “Smiler” incident.

In our last bulletin we reported the HSE’s decision to prosecute Merlin following the highly publicised incident at Alton Towers theme park on 2 June 2015 in which five people were seriously injured on a rollercoaster, when their carriage collided with an empty stationary carriage on the same track.