ASD and the AICD have told boards that AI agents need minimum access. Most access reviews only list people. What to check, and a free checklist.
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They Had a Risk Assessment. Five Workers Still Had Lead in Their Blood.
AGL was fined $60,000 after five workers had elevated blood lead. They had a risk assessment and six items of PPE, and it missed the only route of entry that mattered.
The Guard Was There. Someone Switched It Off.
South Australia has laid its first industrial manslaughter charges. On 23 July 2026, following a SafeWork SA investigation and a referral to the Director of Public Prosecutions, charges were filed in the Adelaide Magistrates Court against Nylastex Tooling Pty Ltd, Nylastex Holdings Pty Ltd and two directors. A project manager employed by the company has […]
The Pen Test Found It in 2020. The Regulator Found It in 2026.
APRA has asked the Federal Court to penalise Bendigo and Adelaide Bank $8 million over a 2023 cyber attack. Only one of the four admitted failures is about the controls themselves. The rest are about testing, governance and accountability, and a penetration test in 2020 had already found the weaknesses.
How to Get ISO Certified in Australia: The Full Certification Process
Getting ISO certified follows the same six stages whatever the standard: gap analysis, develop the system, implement it, internal audit, management review, then a two-stage external audit by an accredited certification body. Stage 1 of that external audit checks your system and documentation against the standard. Stage 2 checks that you have actually implemented it, […]
How to Check if an ISO Certificate Is Real or Fake
You cannot tell whether an ISO certificate is genuine by looking at it. Forged certificates used to give themselves away through bad typography, wrong logos and clumsy wording. They do not any more. The only reliable way to verify a certificate is to check it against the register of the accreditation body for the region, […]
Global ACI Has Replaced the IAF and ILAC: What It Means
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) were replaced by a single body, Global Accreditation Cooperation Incorporated (Global ACI), on 1 January 2026. If you hold an ISO certificate, nothing you need to do has changed. Your certificate remains valid, your certification body continues as normal, and existing accreditations are […]
Free AI Training for Small Business, and What It Means for Clause 7.2
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have now launched free AI training programs aimed squarely at small business, and if your people use AI on work that affects your management system, that training is not just useful. It is evidence you are required to hold. ISO clause 7.2 asks you to determine the competence your people need, […]
They Said They Would Monitor It. That Was the $7.3 Million Part.
There is a moment in an environmental audit that catches people out more reliably than anything in the aspects register. I ask to see the evidence behind a sentence on the company website. Not a difficult sentence. Usually something like “we are committed to sustainable sourcing”, or “we monitor our suppliers’ environmental performance”, or “carbon […]
Nonconformance & Corrective Action in ISO 9001 (with Examples)
What a nonconformance is in ISO 9001, the difference between correction and corrective action, and how to close one out, with practical examples.
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