Alton Towers is in consultation with staff over making up to 70 redundancies before it reopens for the 2017 season.
The announcement of job cuts follow the £5 million fine handed to Merlin Attractions for a ‘catastrophic failure’ of health and safety rules over The Smiler crash in June last year, which left two teenagers needing leg amputations and several others with physical injureries and trauma.
The theme park employs 800 full-time and 1,500 season workers and the company confirmed at-risk notices had been sent to affected workers.
The move is ‘part of Alton Towers’ continued recovery’, a spokesman told Sky News, and the cuts will be made across all departments.
Alton Towers said a consultation was under way and the jobs would go ahead of the 2017 season.
The park is currently closed for this season and will reopen in March next year.
