Reducing workplace harm. Improving outcomes for injured workers.

WorkSafe has charged the Victorian Building Authority (VBA) after an inspector took their own life in May 2022.

A timber processor has been convicted and fined $350,000 after a worker died when he became entangled in a conveyor belt drive shaft at a Benalla timber mill in May 2018.

A Yarra Valley mechanics has been convicted and fined $115,000 following the death of a roadside assistance driver in a fatigue-related crash in 2018.

WorkSafe has charged a provider of supported independent living services after a client died following a seizure at her Eaglehawk home in May 2021.

A company that manufactures plastic food packaging in Shepparton has been fined $30,000 after a maintenance fitter's hand was crushed in a machine in 2020.

WorkSafe Victoria and SafeWork NSW have visited 22 building sites in Yarrawonga and Mulwala as part of a joint-agency operation to boost construction safety.