Accuris adds Australian legislation to Engineering Workbench

Engineering and supply chain intelligence company Accuris has announced that it has added more than 18,000 in-force Australian Commonwealth Acts, legislative instruments and notifiable instruments to its Engineering Workbench (EWB) platform. Engineering teams that design, manufacture, operate or supply products in Australia can search legislation and technical standards together, receive alerts when tracked content changes and link legislative provisions directly to design decisions.

The content comes from the Federal Register of Legislation. Australia now joins the United States, Canada and the European Union in Accuris regulatory coverage.

Engineering teams often retrieve legislation from government websites, consult technical standards in a separate platform and track updates manually across jurisdictions. This fragmented process increases the risk of missed changes, slows interpretation and makes it harder to show how a legal requirement informed a design decision during an audit.

Accuris says that Engineering Workbench brings legislation and standards into one searchable environment so teams can review requirements, monitor changes and preserve the source behind a compliance decision.

The system aims to help engineering teams find the right requirement quickly through semantic search covering standards and legislation in one query, and stay current on regulatory changes. Subscription updates notify users when tracked content changes, and the system summarises the differences between versions. Section-level links connect legislative provisions to design decisions, while annotations capture the team's interpretation in context.

Accuris claims that engineering teams using Engineering Workbench spend 30% less time finding knowledge.

“Engineering decisions depend on both technical standards and the legislation that governs how products are designed, manufactured and operated,” said Claude Pumilia, Chairman and CEO of Accuris. “Adding Australian Commonwealth legislation to Engineering Workbench gives customers one place to find those requirements, monitor changes and retain the source behind each compliance decision.”

The collection covers in-force Commonwealth legislation across nine portfolio areas relevant to engineering and industry:

• Agriculture, fisheries and forestry
• Climate change, energy, the environment and water
• Defence
• Employment and workplace relations
• Foreign affairs and trade
• Health, disability and ageing
• Home affairs, including air transport
• Industry, science and resources
• Infrastructure, transport, regional development, communications and the arts.
   

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