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Two companies have been fined a total of $50,000 after a worker's arm became caught in a machine at a brick manufacturing site in Thomastown in 2018.

A company that manufactures concrete products has been convicted and fined after an incident at a Shepparton factory.

A Seymour car dealership has been fined $40,000 after a worker suffered skull fractures and bleeding on the brain following an incident involving a forklift.

WorkSafe Health and Safety Month will present its biggest ever program of events when it returns to the road next month, following two years of online-only sessions due to COVID-19.

A healthcare provider has been convicted and fined $100,000 after the death of a patient at a Bendigo psychiatric unit.

WorkSafe investigators have prevented almost $37 million being syphoned from Victoria's workers compensation scheme by fraud in the past four years.

WorkSafe Victoria and SafeWork NSW inspected 43 construction sites in Mildura and Buronga as part of a joint workplace safety blitz from 22 to 26 August.

WorkSafe has charged a man following a series of incidents during an investigation of alleged safety breaches at a North Fitzroy construction site in June 2021.

A bus company has been fined $30,000 after giving a formal written warning to a bus driver for reporting safety concerns to WorkSafe.