Short version: when you’re short-staffed and watching every dollar, the routine safety checks are often among the first things to slip, from the daily pre-start checks to the regular chemical register review. The workshops staying on top of it have made those checks quick and hard to forget. Three-minute read on why that matters right now. Capricorn has just released its 2026 State of the Nation report on the automotive aftermarket, and if you run a workshop it’s worth half a

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