Living Colour Nursery and Bianco Reinforcing were fined a total of $48,750 in separate incidents involving poor work practices and machinery.
The incidents involved employees using machinery with moving parts with insufficient guarding and lack of written safe operating instructions, according to WorkSafe SA.
WorkSafe SA told the court that in each of the cases, both employers had safety systems in place, but each had not fully assessed the dangers each task posed to employees.
“Contact with moving objects is a major cause of workplace injury, and insufficient guarding of moving parts has long been recognised as a key factor in such incident,” said acting executive director Juanita Lovatt.
“Safety management must be ongoing, through a systematic, and reviewed regularly for any gaps,” she said.