Explosives Incidents

Incidents Involving Explosives and High Conquence Dangerous Goods

Employers and occupiers must report incidents involving explosives immediately to:

• Victoria police at 000, and 
• WorkSafe Victoria at 132 360

Incidents involving explosives that must be reported include:

• all injuries
• damage to property
• fire that may be caused by an explosion
• any theft, attempted theft or unexplained loss of High Consequence Dangerous Goods (HCDG), or
• any other security incident involving HCDG.

WorkSafe will call the employer or occupier the same day and advise the employer or occupier:

• if an inspector will visit their site
• whether the employer or occupier can disturb the incident scene.

Serious incidents will be assessed by a WorkSafe Inspector. For more information, refer to compliance and enforcement.