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Safe Work Australia

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

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  2. substantive Rewrites its statement, naming new AI officials and adding AI use for corporate functions. It drops its pledge to keep AI away from direct public interaction and its DTA compliance claim.

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    • Chief Information Officer appointed AI Accountable Official, replacing the Group Manager, Corporate & Engagement
    • Chief Operating Officer appointed Chief AI Officer
    • New AI use disclosed: support for corporate and enabling functions
    • Staff must now complete mandatory training before getting AI access (previously training was only available)
    • Adds that AI use is governed and access and usage are monitored
    • Removed: commitment not to use AI where the public may directly interact with or be significantly impacted by it
    • Removed: statement of compliance with all mandatory requirements of the DTA policy
    • Removed: commitment to use AI only in line with legislation, regulations and frameworks
    • Removed: descriptions of the legal-document research and data-aggregation AI applications
    • Removed: OECD definition of AI, first-publication date (28 February 2025) and encouragement for staff to report concerns
    • Review wording changed to 'annually when we make a significant change', which is ambiguous about whether reviews are still annual
    • Commitment dropped (will not): Do not propose to use AI where the public may directly interact with or be significantly impacted by it
    • Commitment dropped (will): Adapt AI systems and advice to align with evolving legislation, ethical standards and public expectations
    • Commitment dropped (will): Any changes to AI use will result in an update to the transparency statement
    • Commitment dropped (will): Release an annual AI transparency statement on how AI is used and managed
    • Commitment dropped (will): Will only use AI services in accordance with applicable legislation, regulations, frameworks and policies
    • Commitment: no public-facing AI without a human removed
    • 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 before gaining access to AI
    • Staff training: available → mandatory
    • Policy version referenced: unspecified → not referenced
    • Public-facing AI use: none → not addressed
    • 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 analysing policy and legal documents to support policy development. It has a Chief Information Officer as AI Accountable Official and a Chief Operating Officer as Chief AI Officer, monitors AI access and use, and requires staff to complete training before they get access. read by Claude Opus 5.5

What it says AI is used for

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

Public-facing AI: not addressed

Safeguards named: staff training

The Standard’s eight elements 5 of 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 requires Policy 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 asks AI Plan

Chief AI Officer
in place (Chief Operating Officer)

Dates as of 12 Oct 2026

Review schedule
annually and when the approach changes
Says it was last updated
29 Apr 2026
Last change we saw
29 Apr 2026
Updated since policy v2.0
yes
Annual review
stated date within the last year

Commitments

  • will Statement reviewed annually or when significant changes occur
  • will Staff must complete mandatory training before 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 2 other agencies AFMA ANMM

Statement text © Safe Work Australia. Most agency content is CC BY 4.0; check the original for its terms.

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    Rewrites its statement, naming new AI officials and adding AI use for corporate functions. It drops its pledge to keep AI away from direct public interaction and its DTA compliance claim.

    read by Claude Opus 5.5
    The words that changed
    ## 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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