# Establish accountability processes and a risk-management process (guardrails 1 and 2)

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Australia)
- **Jurisdiction**: Australia
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Guardrails 1 and 2

## In brief

Establish accountability processes and a risk-management process (guardrails 1 and 2) is a voluntary measure under the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard in Australia (Guardrails 1 and 2). The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Adopt an AI policy, assign an accountable owner and run per-use-case risk assessments.

## What the duty requires

Guardrail 1 asks organisations to set up accountability processes including governance, internal capability and a strategy for regulatory compliance; guardrail 2 asks for a risk-management process to identify and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle.

## What an organisation does about it

Adopt an AI policy, assign an accountable owner and run per-use-case risk assessments.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-risk-assessment

## Parent instrument

- Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Australia)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/australia-voluntary-ai-safety-standard
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/australia-voluntary-ai-safety-standard.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0001 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0001; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/australia-vaiss-accountability-and-risk-management
- **Official source**: https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard
- **Provision**: Guardrails 1 and 2
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Establish accountability processes and a risk-management process (guardrails 1 and 2) (Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard)" [AIPT-OBL-0001, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0001 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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