Blog posts tagged with 'dangerous goods act'

Victorian employers faced serious legal and financial consequences for putting workers at risk last year, with WorkSafe Victoria completing 119 successful health and safety prosecutions and enforceable undertakings. Courts imposed a total of $13,318,433 in fines, costs and enforceable undertakings for breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Dangerous Goods Act in 2024, including two costing defendants more than $1 million each.