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A young ride operator working at Gold Coast theme park Dreamworld when a ride malfunction led to the deaths of four people in October 2016 is reportedly "highly distressed" after giving evidence at Coronial inquest this week, saying she "would have done everything I could have" to help the victims.

Courtney Williams was one of two people running the ride and had been given 90 minutes of training on her first day rostered on the Thunder River Rapids ride in October 2016 when two rafts collided and the group was thrown to their deaths.

An inquest on the Gold Coast is investigating the deaths of Kate Goodchild, Luke Dorsett, Roozi Araghi and Cindy Low.

Williams' barrister Peter Callaghan told the court his client was "highly distressed" and not in a good emotional state after revisiting the tragedy while giving evidence earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Williams told the court she would not have pressed the emergency button within reach of her to stop the conveyor from moving, because she was not trained to do so.

As reported by the ABC, Williams told the hearing that she had arrived for her shift at 9:15am on 25th October 2016, and was told she was rostered as a level two operator - a role that she had not performed before and for which she was given "about an hour and a half" of training.

Williams told the inquest she had not remembered being shown how to shut down the ride and said she was told by a trainer about the emergency stop button who said, "don't worry about it, you don't need to use it".

She said she "didn't know" the emergency button would stop the conveyor from moving.

Williams stated "it was my first day, I wasn't confident operating the control panel.”

Yesterday, Williams clarified her testimony, adding "I would have done everything I could have" to help the victims.

Barrister Peter Callaghan said Williams was "mortified" to think she could have upset the family members.

Senior ride operator Timothy Williams later told the hearing that he had not participated in any emergency drills or simulations since the fatalities in 2016.

He told the court “there has been talk and plans of doing it but not as yet that I'm aware of.”

Mr Williams said operators were now rostered 15 minutes earlier to attend daily briefings run by supervisors to discuss any ongoing issues at the park.

Earlier, Mr Williams told the court today there was "no scenario training" from Dreamworld to deal with an event of rafts being stranded on a conveyor belt.

Mr Williams said he was working on the ride prior to the fatalities, when a large water pump feeding it failed.

He told the court there were rafts on the course and one on the conveyor at the time, and the operators initiated a normal shutdown procedure.

Counsel assisting the coroner Ken Fleming QC asked “did you consider this to be an emergency.”

Williams replied "no.”

Mr Williams was asked by Coroner James McDougall about a memo sent to staff about a week prior to the fatalities directing employees not to push an emergency e-stop button unless the main control panel could not be reached.

Mr Williams said "I felt that the language was a bit restrictive.”

Coroner McDougall asked “so negative as opposed to positive, is that fair enough?" coroner James McDougall asked.

Williams replied "yes.”

The Court heard there was no alarm to signal when a pump had malfunctioned on the Thunder River Rapids ride.

Timonty Williams was asked by Fleming how he would detect safe water levels on the ride.

He replied “just a stain on the wall.”

Image shows the Thunder River Rapids ride in operation at Dreamworld prior to October 2016. 

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