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Compliance and enforcement policy and priorities

Energy Safe Victoria establishes priorities for compliance and enforcement – alerting industry of safety issues that require a particular focus and the legislation we enforce.

Annual priorities

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Bushfire mitigation

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Safety around powerlines

Apprentice safety

Safety at home

Our priorities for financial year 2024–2025 target harms across the energy value chain. We based our priorities on information and evidence from a range of sources.

Our role is to prevent harm caused by energy-related infrastructure and practices. We do this by monitoring and enforcing compliance with Victoria’s energy safety legislative framework.

This includes:

  • working with regulated entities to ensure energy safety requirements are known, understood and complied with
  • working with community to provide advice and increase awareness of energy safety
  • monitoring and enforcing compliance with the energy safety legislative framework
  • targeting regulatory action – informed by technical safety expertise and data – to achieve the safest outcomes
  • holding regulated entities to account for non-compliance with energy safety requirements.

Our priorities for 2024–2025

Compliance and Enforcement Policy

The Compliance and Enforcement Policy sets out Energy Safe’s approach – how we promote and enforce compliance with Victoria's energy safety legislative framework.

The Compliance and Enforcement Policy can be viewed here:

Energy Safe - Compliance And Enforcement Policy 2021
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Date: 05/10/2024 14:53

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