Reducing workplace harm. Improving outcomes for injured workers.

Employers are urged to plan ahead to keep workers safe as severe weather hits Victoria – including heatwave conditions, potentially damaging wind gusts and extreme fire danger.

A Dandenong South food recycling company has been convicted and fined $200,000 after a young worker was left with lifelong injuries when they were crushed by the steel doors of a processing machine.

A Wimmera feedlot operator has been convicted and fined $140,000 following the electrocution of a worker while operating a telehandler in 2020.

A construction company has been convicted and fined $26,000 following multiple safety breaches at a Geelong building site.

A fruit and vegetable wholesaler has been fined $50,000 after a worker was struck by a load falling from a forklift at its Breakwater warehouse.

A solar panel installer has been convicted and fined $35,000 after workers were caught on the roof of a two-storey home in Leopold without fall preventions in place.