WorkSafe Victoria’s silica field team visited 52 industry sites in the past month – issuing 25 compliance notices and seizing more than 65 samples of suspected engineered stone, as…

  The implementation of AI or generative AI tools within workplaces can impact both the perception and existence of psychosocial risks at work, according to RMIT. For example, AI can…

Emergency service personnel and other professionals who are responsible for responding to incidents on high-speed roads experience higher fatality and incident rates, and also suffer from higher rates of post-traumatic…

While work-related incidents can have a significant impact on workers and their employers, there is often a tendency to focus narrowly on immediate causes of incidents at the expense of…

A decision to review WHS incident notification requirements under the model WHS Act was an outcome of the 2018 Review of the model WHS laws. This was to ensure: the provisions…

This dashboard has been updated to include the latest publicly available WHS prosecutions data from 2023. Future updates to the WHS prosecutions data dashboard will be released annually. Provides national…

18 July 2024 SafeWork SA has suspended the licences of three workers for up to 12 months after a series of safety breaches involving powerlines. Two workers had their licences…

22 July 2024 The hospitalisation of an apprentice who inadvertently shot themselves in the thigh with a nail gun has prompted a warning from SafeWork SA. PCBUs are reminded to…

A Victorian employer has been fined $10,000 after an apprentice worker was subjected to a series of violent and bullying behaviours, some of which included being shot at with a…

A mining company has been fined $400,000 plus costs of $5743.30 after a worker’s arm was trapped in a conveyor at the company’s gold processing plant, located 24 kilometres north-west…