WorkSafe Victoria general prosecution guidelines

What it contains

This guideline covers:

• WorkSafe’s constructive compliance strategy
• Victoria’s occupational health and safety and workers compensation laws
• enforcement priorities and criteria
• key aims of prosecutions
• target areas for prosecution

WorkSafe is guided by 2 paramount considerations in deciding the most appropriate enforcement action to take. These are whether:

• there is sufficient evidence to support enforcement action
• enforcement action is in the public interest.