What the Australian Government’s Voluntary AI Safety Standard and its 10 guardrails ask of businesses — voluntary guidance, not law — and how to apply them.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Australia’s main AI-specific guidance is the Voluntary AI Safety Standard and its 10 guardrails. It is not law, but adopting it is a practical way to govern AI responsibly. Here is what it asks.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| What | Voluntary AI Safety Standard — 10 guardrails (DISR) |
| Published | 5 September 2024 |
| Status | Voluntary guidance, not binding law |
| Use | A practical governance framework to adopt now |
What the standard is
Published by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources on 5 September 2024, the Voluntary AI Safety Standard sets out 10 guardrails covering accountability and governance, risk management, data governance and security, testing and monitoring, human oversight, end-user transparency, contestability, supply-chain transparency, and record-keeping. It is explicitly voluntary — guidance that complements existing law, not regulation.
Why adopt it anyway
Even though it is not binding, the guardrails map closely to obligations you already have under the Privacy Act and consumer law, and to where regulation is heading (the coming APP 1.7 transparency rule). Adopting them now is good governance and reduces later rework.
Putting it into practice
Translate the guardrails into your AI projects: assign accountability, document risk, control data, test and monitor, keep a human in the loop, and be transparent with end users. osFoundry is a model-agnostic, bring-your-own-key (BYOK) AI orchestration platform — usage-based pricing with no per-seat fees, local-first and self-hostable, with per-region data pinning (US, EU or Japan) or deployment into your own cloud. Its audit logging and configuration controls map to several guardrails. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer an Australian managed region. For data that must stay in Australia, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside an Australian cloud region such as AWS (Sydney or Melbourne), Microsoft Azure (Australia East, Australia Southeast or Australia Central in Canberra) or Google Cloud (Sydney or Melbourne), or running models locally on-device.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Australian businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.