Transport, Storage & Trade

More than 68,000 Victorian workplaces fall within the industry areas of storage, transport, wholesale, trade and retail industries.

Apart from information below, you should check WorkSafe Victoria Road Transport; Storage and Warehousing and Stevedoring industry webpages.

Safe Work Australia has a Transport and Storage webpage and has also produced a fact sheet of the industry nationally detailing numbers of workers, claims and fatalities.

Last updated May 2020

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