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Tracked since 11 Nov 2025 · 1 change of substance across 2 captures · last changed 29 Apr 2026

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  1. Tracking begins. The statement already existed; when Safe Work Australia first published it is not recorded.

  2. substantive Safe Work Australia rewrites its statement, naming a Chief AI Officer and new accountable official, adding mandatory staff training, and dropping its public-interaction and DTA-compliance commitments.

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    • Chief Information Officer named AI Accountable Official and Chief Operating Officer named Chief AI Officer
    • Removed: commitment not to use AI where the public may directly interact with or be significantly impacted by it
    • Removed: prior accountable official (Group Manager, Corporate & Engagement, designated 9 December 2024)
    • Removed: statement of compliance with all mandatory DTA policy requirements
    • New: mandatory training before staff gain AI access; governance and monitoring of AI access and usage
    • New use disclosed: AI supporting corporate and enabling functions
    • Removed: OECD definition of AI, first-publication date, and reference to legislation/ethics compliance
    • Commitment dropped (will not): Do not propose to use AI where the public may directly interact with or be significantly impacted by it
    • Commitment: no public-facing AI without a human removed
    • Commitment dropped (will): Any changes to our AI use will result in an update to this Transparency Statement
    • Commitment dropped (will): Only use AI services in accordance with applicable legislation, regulations, frameworks and policies
    • Commitment dropped (will): Release an annual AI Transparency Statement giving visibility on how AI is used and managed
    • Legislative compliance statement removed
    • Policy compliance statement removed
    • Safeguard dropped: incident or concern reporting
    • Chief AI Officer: not mentioned → in place
    • Domain added: corporate and enabling
    • New commitment (will): Staff must complete mandatory training prior to gaining access to AI
    • Staff training: available → mandatory
    • Public-facing AI use: none → not addressed
    • Policy version referenced: unspecified → not referenced
    • Stated first-published date: 2025-02-28 → —
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What the statement says

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Safe Work Australia says it uses AI for corporate and enabling functions, analytics for insights, and analysis of policy and legal documents to support policy development. It names a Chief Information Officer as AI Accountable Official and a Chief Operating Officer as Chief AI Officer, requires mandatory training before staff gain AI access, and reviews the statement annually or on significant change. read by Claude Opus 5

What it says AI is used for

  • Analytics for insights
  • Policy and legal
  • Corporate and enabling

Public-facing AI: not addressed

Safeguards named: staff training

Against the Standard 5/8

  • Intentions behind AI use
  • Use classified by DTA usage pattern or domain
  • Public-facing use addressed
  • Monitoring and protection measures
  • Compliance with the policy
  • Compliance with legislation
  • Date last updated
  • Public contact

What the policy requiresPolicy v2.0

Accountable official
Chief Information Officer
Strategic position on AI
not mentioned
AI use-case register
not mentioned
Staff training
mandatory
Policy version referenced
not referenced

What the AI Plan asksAI Plan

Chief AI Officer
in place (Chief Operating Officer)

Currency as of 29 Aug 2026

Review cadence
annually and when the approach changes
Says it was last updated
29 Apr 2026
Last change we observed
29 Apr 2026
Updated since policy 2.0
yes
Annual review
within a year of its own date

Commitments

  • willStatement reviewed annually or when significant changes occur
  • willStaff must complete mandatory training prior to gaining access to AI

The statement

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Safe Work Australia has appointed its Chief Information Officer to the role of AI Accountable Official and the Chief Operating Officer to the role of Chief AI Officer.

Safe Work Australia’s Approach to AI Adoption and Use

We are committed to exploring the safe and responsible adoption of AI to improve service delivery, policy outcomes and productivity while ensuring public trust is maintained.

Safe Work Australia currently uses AI to:

  • support corporate and enabling functions.
  • provide analytics for insights where AI identifies, produces or understands insights via comprehensive data analysis, predictive modelling, and/or reporting tools.
  • analyse policies and legal documents to support policy development that is consistent with existing laws.

Safe Work Australia has processes in place to ensure our AI use is appropriately governed and our AI access and usage is monitored.

Prior to gaining access to AI, staff must complete mandatory training.

For further information or enquiries about Safe Work Australia’s adoption of AI, you can contact us directly at businessservices@swa.gov.au

This statement will be reviewed annually when we make a significant change to our approach to AI, or when any new factor impacts this statement.Also appears in 3 other agenciesAFMAANMMDVSC

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    Safe Work Australia rewrites its statement, naming a Chief AI Officer and new accountable official, adding mandatory staff training, and dropping its public-interaction and DTA-compliance commitments.

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    ## Official Roles Safe Work Australia is developing its maturity and potential use cases for AI. While those use cases remain under consideration, AI usage is limited at the Agency. When discussing AI, we apply the [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) definition](https://www.oecd.org/en.html): > An AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, has appointed its Chief Information Officer to the role of AI Accountable Official and the Chief Operating Officer to the role of Chief AI Officer. ## Safe Work Australia’s Approach to AI Adoption and Use We are commendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Different AI systems vary in their levels of autonomy and adaptiveness after deployment. ## AI use Safe Work Australia has very limited AI usage. Any changes to our AI use will result in an update to this Transparency Statement.\ Safe Work Australia uses AI to perform research and analytics for insights to support our policy and legal functions. We havitted to exploring the safe and responsible adoption of AI to improve service delivery, policy outcomes and productivity while ensuring public trust is maintained. Safe Work Australia currently uses AI to: - support corporate an AId enabled application that can analyse large volumes of legal documentation to perform first level research, and an AI enabled application that aggregates data inputs for consumption. ### Usage Patterns Safe Work Australia employs AI in the following way: - Aing functions. - provide analytics for insights: where AI identifies, produces or understands insights about a material via comprehensive data analysis, predictive modelling, and/or reporting tools. ### Domains Our AI applications focus on: - Policy and Legal Functions: A- analyses policies and legal documents to support policy development that is consistent with existing laws. ### Ensuring Responsible Use - Safe Work Australia safeguards against risks and ensures responsible AI use through releasing an annual AI Transparency Statement to provide visibility on how AI is used and managed. ## Public interaction and impact We do not propose to use AI where the public may directly interact with or be significantly impacted by it.\ Monitoring AI effectiveness and negative impacts ## Training and assistance All staff have accessSafe Work Australia has processes in place to ensure our AI use is appropriately governed and our AI access and usage is monitored. Prior to trgaining on the appropriate use ofaccess to AI, services and are encouraged to report concerns to the AI Accountable Official. ### Compliance We will only use AI services in accordance with applicable legislation, regulations, frameworks and policies. Safe Work Australia is committed to adapting our AI systems and advice as needed to align with evolving legislation, ethical standards, and public expectations. ### Policy for the responsible use of AI in government We comply with all mandatory requirements of the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) Policy for the responsible use of AI in government. ### Accountable official The Group Manager, Corporate & Engagement was designated as the accountable official on 9 December 2024. ### AI transparency statement The AI transparency statement was first published to our website on 28 February 2025.taff must complete mandatory training. For further information or enquiries about Safe Work Australia’s adoption of AI, you can contact us directly at [businessservices@swa.gov.au](mailto:businessservices@swa.gov.au) _Theis statement will be reviewed annually or when we make a significant changes occur. ### AI contact For questions about this statement or for further information on the Agency’s usage of AI, please contact [businessservices@swa.gov.au](mailto:businessservices@swa.gov.au). to our approach to AI, or when any new factor impacts this statement._
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