Reducing workplace harm. Improving outcomes for injured workers.

WorkSafe has urged Victorian employers to secure worksites as potentially damaging winds sweep the state over the next 24 hours.

An air conditioning company has been fined $85,000 after a first-year apprentice fell through a staircase void at a residential construction site in Ormond.

Orbost dairy farmer and football netball club president Royston Nettleton has been named WorkSafe’s 2025 Footy’s Favourite Farmer, adding another win to his record of service on and off the field.

An asphalt company has been fined $80,000 after an employee died when he was run over by a colleague driving a skid steer loader at the workplace, after hours.

WorkSafe has charged dozens of businesses for breaching working at height safety standards in the first half of 2025, as the crackdown to prevent disastrous falls continues.

A carpenter has been sentenced to a one year Community Corrections Order after a young worker suffered fatal head injuries when he fell three metres through an unprotected stair void on a Glen Waverley construction site.