Most organisations have filed artificial intelligence under governance. It sits with the privacy review, the procurement checklist and a policy about acceptable use. It is a technology decision with a compliance wrapper. Safe Work Australia has just made that filing incomplete. Its new guidance on AI and digital technologies treats these systems as something a […]
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ISO 45001 Certification Cost & Timeline in Australia (2026 Guide)
The short answer ISO 45001 certification costs $7,000 to $25,000 in the first year for most Australian small to medium businesses, over a project of three to six months. After that, budget $2,000 to $5,000 a year for surveillance audits. Indicative ranges. Cost figures reviewed August 2026. How much does ISO 45001 certification cost in […]
Your Plant Risk Assessment Is a Document. Is It a Control?
There is a question I ask early in a safety audit that tells me more than an hour of reading policies: when was this machine’s risk assessment last reviewed, and what changed as a result? The first half gets an answer. The plant risk assessment exists and it is signed. The second half goes quiet, […]
Two Directors Were Fined Personally in One Week. Officer Due Diligence Is Being Enforced.
In one week in NSW, two company directors were fined in their own names for failing the officer’s duty of due diligence. Here is what that duty asks, and how ISO 45001 evidences it.
Fined $230,000 for Someone Else’s Worker on Someone Else’s Plant
The short answer Contractor management is not a prequalification folder. Your WHS duty extends to people who are not your employees, and a contract saying otherwise does not discharge it. In August 2026 an Australian service company was convicted and fined $230,000 over a machine it did not own and a worker it did not […]
There Is Now a Code of Practice for Elevating Work Platforms. Most Duty Holders Have Not Read It.
Scissor lifts and boom lifts have been ordinary equipment on Australian sites for decades, and for most of that time the guidance behind them was exactly that: two Safe Work Australia guides, carrying no particular legal weight. That changed quietly. In December 2025 Safe Work Australia published a model Code of Practice: Elevating work platforms, […]
Your Exposure Limits Change on 1 December. Silica Is Not One of Them.
Australia’s WEL list replaces the WES list on 1 December 2026. Diesel particulate gets a first national limit, 33 carcinogens lose theirs, and silica does not change.
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 […]
Psychosocial Hazards at Work: What Australian Law Requires, and Where ISO 45001 Stops Short
Every Australian jurisdiction now requires you to manage psychosocial hazards as hazards, not as wellbeing. What the law asks for, where the states differ, and why a certified ISO 45001 system may not prove compliance.
