Latest WorkSafe Victoria News

Operation TEMPEST sweeps VIC and TAS in major illicit tobacco and vaping crackdown
Almond Grower Charged Over Forklift Injury
Companies Charged After Worker’s Fall From Balcony
Company Fined After Disabled Worker’s Staircase Death
Worker Electrocuted In Scissor Lift Incident
Nominate Safety Star For WorkSafe Awards
Worker Fatally Crushed By Lift
Project 3175 Targets Manufacturing Harm Hotspot
Six-fold fine increase after electric shock sentence appeal  
Recycling centre charged after worker killed in collision  
Health Provider Charged After Patient Assaults Nurse
Monash secures $5.4 million in ARC Linkage funding for research projects
Farmer Dies After Quad Bike Rollover
$55,000 more in fines after work experience skylight fall  
$180,000 Fine For Recidivist Food Manufacturer
Health Service Charged After Death In Emergency Care
Man To Repay More Than $117,000 For Chilli Sauce Fraud
Significant compensation win for worker burned in preventable workplace explosion
Young Worker Killed In Warehouse Incident
ANMF welcomes funding for health and safety but more to do for nurses, midwives and carers
ANMF welcomes new funding for WorkSafe inspectors
Builder Fined Over Worker’s Fatal Fall
WorkSafe Responds To Geelong Oil Refinery Fire
Charges After Prison Officer Assault
Kew Recreation Centre March 2026 Progress Report
$115,000 In Fines After Rainwater Tank Crushes Woman
Alleged Fraud Lands Worker In Court
Construction Company Charged After Worker Fall
Plastics manufacturer fined $90,000 for finger amputation  
Builder Fined $40,000 For Lack Of Fall Protection
$150,000 Fine After Covid Training Fail
$850,000 Safety Spend After Kew Rec Centre Collapse
WorkSafe Half-year Results 6 March
$325,000 Fine For Poultry Farm Worker Death
Victoria’s Health And Safety Heroes Honoured
Take Strain Out Of Manual Handling
$700,000 in fines for string of working at height offences  
Manufacturer Commits $170,800 To Safety After Injury
Campaign Shows Farm Safety And Success Go Hand In Hand
$218,000 Safety Spend For Builder
Heavy Vehicle Drivers Forum
Employers Urged To Do More To Protect Apprentices
$200,000 Fine After Unsupervised Worker’s Crane Injury
Farmer Dies After Quad Bike Incident
More than $17 million in penalties for unsafe work in 2025  
Farmer Dies After Being Run Over By Tractor 27 January
Workplaces At Risk From Heat And Fire Danger
Hospital Charged After Patient Death In Care