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 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 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