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Knowing what AS 5732:2022 requires is one thing. Being able to demonstrate compliance across every domain when a WorkSafe inspector arrives is quite another. Here’s what the five areas actually look like in practice. If you read our last post here, we covered the liability exposure that comes the moment a hybrid or electric vehicle enters your workshop. The WHS Act duty of care is triggered. AS 5732:2022 — Electric Vehicle Operations: Maintenance and Repair applies. The quest

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance Electric vehicles are arriving in Australian workshops faster than most operators have planned for. Here’s what AS 5732:2022 and WorkSafe actually require — and the liability exposure if you’re not ready. Australia crossed a milestone quietly. More than 12% of new car sales are now electric or hybrid. Industry forecasts put that figure well above 30% by 2030. That means EVs are already parking in your neighbourhood

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance New South Wales just passed legislation that extends WorkSafe obligations to digital tools used in the workplace. If your workshop uses software to schedule jobs, track staff, or manage compliance — this affects you. On 12 February 2026, a piece of legislation quietly passed both houses of the New South Wales Parliament that most workshop operators probably didn't notice. That's understandable — it didn't make the f

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance There's a smart piece of thinking doing the rounds in the Australian automotive industry right now. A recent piece in the Australian Automotive Aftermarket Magazine recently published an article asking a pointed question: are we investing like the future is coming? The thinking focuses on software-defined vehicles, over-the-air updates, and the structural shift in who owns the customer relationship as cars become mo

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance If you run an automotive workshop in Australia or New Zealand, there is one piece of equipment that carries more compliance obligation than any other. It's also the one most likely to be under-documented, inconsistently checked, and potentially catastrophic if it fails. Your vehicle hoist. The good news is that the obligations are clear, the required checks are not onerous, and done properly they take your technici

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance Walk into almost any auto workshop in Australia today and you'll find it somewhere. Bolted to the wall near the hoist, or sitting on a bench, or tucked into a folder nobody's looked at since March. A paper checklist. Columns of tick boxes. Maybe a signature line at the bottom. It's been there for years. It feels like compliance. It looks like a system. It isn't. And if a WorkSafe inspector walks through your door to

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance Here's something worth thinking about on a quiet Tuesday morning. A WorkSafe inspector walks through your workshop door. No warning. No appointment. They have the legal right to do exactly that — and they do it regularly across automotive workshops all over Australia. What happens next depends entirely on what you've been doing when nobody was watching. The PCBU — That's You Before we get into what inspectors check,

Published by AutoComply360 | Auto Workshop Safety Compliance Let's talk about something most workshop owners don't want to think about until they have to. A worker gets injured. Maybe it's a back strain from lifting a gearbox awkwardly. Maybe it's a slip on a wet bay floor. Maybe it's something more serious — a hoist failure, a crush injury, a worker struck by a vehicle. Whatever the cause, the moment it happens, the cost clock starts ticking. And it adds up faster than mos