A CAMPSITE operator has admitted health and safety failings which resulted in the death of a six-year-old Dundee boy found unconscious in a swimming pool in Arbroath.
Loch Earn Caravan Parks Limited, which owns the Red Lion Holiday Park in Arbroath, was fined £234,000 at Forfar Sheriff Court today after the death of Aidan Yule.
On June 18, 2011, Aidan, of Kirkton, was playing in the main pool at the Red Lion Holiday Park when he slipped beneath the water.
He was spotted less than a minute later and patrons of the pool attempted CPR on the boy before he was rushed by ambulance to Ninewells Hospital, but he was pronounced dead four days later.
An investigation found no risk assessment had been carried out and that little consideration had been given to the potential risks to the public in relation to the use of the swimming pool.
Gary Aitken, head of health & safety division, at the Crown Office, said: “The presence of a lifeguard on duty at the poolside would have reduced the likelihood of the incident occurring and the failure to have lifeguards in place is a significant factor in the incident and the resulting tragic death of a six-year-old boy.”
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