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Gold Coast property management company fined $60,000 for fall from heights
Using an unsafe temporary elevated platform in a Molendinar warehouse has cost a Gold Coast property management company $60,000 for exposing an individual to a risk of death or serious injury.
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Media release
Truckie fined after teenager crushed in workplace incident
An experienced truck driver has pleaded guilty in the Longreach Magistrates Court to breaching his work health and safety duty over an incident in which a young worker was crushed and spent 18 days in hospital.
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Gold Coast handyman fined $60,000 for unlicensed and dodgy electrical work
After posing as a licensed electrical contractor and doing illegal and dangerous electrical work, a Gold Coast handyman was found guilty of seven charges under the Electrical Safety Act 2002 in the Southport Magistrates Court recently.
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Media release
Handyman fined after using wrecking bar to remove asbestos
A local handyman has been fined $3,000 for removing 36.8m2 of asbestos from a Paddington home without holding a licence, using a wrecking bar to remove the asbestos in an uncontrolled manner and for disposing of the asbestos in an unsafe manner.
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Media release
Huge fines imposed on major macadamia nut grower
One of the world’s largest macadamia producers has been fined more than $400,000 over a series of work safety breaches which left workers with serious injuries, including an injury which resulted in a forearm amputation.
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No working at heights safety measures costs construction and roofing company dearly
A Brisbane-based construction and roofing company has been fined $50,000, with a further $25,000 surety attached to a two-year undertaking, in the Southport Magistrates Court after a 2019 workplace incident left a man with a severe brain injury when he fell through a skylight in the South Burnett.
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Media release
Solar panel installation company fined $55,000 after apprentice falls from ladder
A Redcliffe based solar panel installation company has been fined $55,000 after a hearing in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court last Friday.
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Ministerial media release
Rural plant code of practice 2004 review
The Office of Industrial Relations is currently reviewing the Rural Plant Code of Practice 2004 (the Code). Consultation closes 5pm, Monday 29 November 2021.
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Media release
Tingalpa construction given hefty fine for unsafe work practices
A 50-year-old Tingalpa construction company and its director have been fined $90,000 following a 2020 workplace incident that saw a man suffer a traumatic brain injury after a fall from height.
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Ministerial media release
Court issues fines of $245,000 to three parties for labour hire breaches
Better Crop Management Pty Ltd, its director, Rodney Parker, and another man, Joseph Zappia, have been slapped with fines totalling almost a quarter of a million dollars for breaches of the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017. This follows an appearance in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on 15 September 2021.