Qld companies cop safety breach fines
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Two south-east Queensland companies have been fined more than $20,000 each for workplace health and safety breaches.
Aussie Spray Booths at Lawnton, north of Brisbane, was fined $22,000 for an incident last February where a worker was burned while using a spray gun and flammable thinners.
The Logan City Bus Company has been ordered to pay $25,000 after a worker was crushed by a bus last June when the vehicle collapsed off a jack.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland spokesman Simon Blackwood says the fines are one way of reducing worker injuries and deaths.
"We do believe that as a result of these prosecutions the message is getting through to employers," he said.
"Of course we back that up with a number of other ways of enforcing the message - providing advice and information and assistance where we can, as well as having to prosecute in those cases where there are injuries."
