# Australia releases a Voluntary AI Safety Standard and consults on mandatory guardrails

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2024-09-05
- **Jurisdiction**: Australia
- **Instrument**: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Australia)
- **Impact level**: High
- **Status after the change**: Voluntary standard

## What changed

The Department of Industry, Science and Resources published ten voluntary guardrails and a proposals paper on mandatory guardrails for high-risk AI, with consultation to 4 October 2024.

## What it means in practice

Australian organisations gained a concrete voluntary baseline aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-09-05-australia-voluntary-standard-and-guardrails
- **Official source**: https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard
- **Source document**: Voluntary AI Safety Standard
- **Published by**: Department of Industry, Science and Resources
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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