Compliance Management Software
Compliance management software is the system an organisation uses to assign compliance training, publish policies for acknowledgement, log incidents and risks, and hold the records that prove all of it happened. It replaces the spreadsheets and shared drives most Australian workplaces start with, and which quietly fall apart as headcount grows.
The reason to move off spreadsheets is evidentiary rather than administrative. Under section 535 of the Fair Work Act, employers must make and keep employee records for seven years, and those records have to be legible, in English, readily accessible to a Fair Work Inspector, and never altered except to correct a genuine error. Section 557C sharpens the point. Where an employer cannot produce records and has no reasonable excuse, the burden of proof shifts, and it falls to the employer to disprove an underpayment allegation rather than to the regulator to prove it. A system that timestamps what was assigned, completed and acknowledged is doing evidentiary work, not just tidying.
What this kind of system usually brings together:
- Records management, so there is one place to answer who completed what and when
- Policy acknowledgement, so a published policy leaves a trail instead of sitting unread on an intranet
- Incident reporting and the corrective actions that follow it
- Automated reminders and escalations, which is usually what stops refresher cycles slipping
Posts tagged here cover how Australian organisations select, implement and get value from this software, what to ask a vendor, and where implementations stall. Record-keeping duties sit alongside state and territory work health and safety obligations and change over time, so treat this as general information rather than legal advice. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s record-keeping guidance sets out the baseline.
To see how it works in practice, look at Sentrient’s compliance management software and the wider compliance management system it sits within.
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