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Work at Standards Australia

Standards Australia is not your standard workplace.
Our culture is driven by our people.
We’re one team
And we’re passionate about what we do.
We pride ourselves on challenging the status quo
building innovation into our work
and finding new ways of doing things every day
We have a flexible working environment
with the physical and mental wellbeing of our team a top priority
we all show up to work for the same reason
to positively impact Australian life
We have been making Australian communities safer, helping our economy grow and connecting our nation to the world for almost 100 years.
So if you’re expecting something standard, think again.

Published on 24 Mar 2019

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Connect

Connect is going to be amazing for Committee Members because it's a one stop shop.

It's a seamless, single log on to all Standards Australia's applications

It gives me a macro view of all the projects that the committee is working on

And what statuses the projects are up to

The inspiration behind Connect is to consolidate and enhance our existing systems and to provide a much more seamless contribution experience

What's great about Connect is that it combines Hub, Public Comment, Balloting and SIM all in one place

It's on that one page; crisp, clear.

I am so excited that we are finally releasing Connect because it's going to be such a great solution for Committee Members

Connect will be a simpler, faster, better, integrated system for all users.

And with the help of our contributors, it can only get better.

14 Feb 2019
Radical Thinking. Incremental Change.

We've been asking you some big questions.
These questions have led to some big ideas.
How can we be more effective?
Technical Governance Review
How can we be easier to work with?
Connect
How can we challenge the status quo?
Innovation Incubator
How can we improve community engagement?
Enhanced Public Comment Platform
How can we get emerging leaders involved?
NEXTgen
Radical Thinking. Incremental Change.
Be part of the change: standards.org.au

23 Nov 2018
Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0, or the fourth industrial revolution, is transforming the way we manufacture goods and interact with our built and natural environment.

3D printing is a great example that is being trialled in some very unexpected places.

Take Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, where work is underway to 3D print artificial reefs in response to deteriorating coral ecosystems.

This kind of innovation is also being explored on the farm using blockchain technology.

From paddock to plate, blockchain is making the food supply chain faster, safer and more secure.

Driverless cars were un-thought of just a few years ago.

Industry 4.0 is making them real.

Better traffic flow, safety, productivity and less environmental impact are all part of this incredible work.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well and truly underway.

Standards are driving this innovation and making the impossible possible.

12 Oct 2018
The Incubator: Innovating Standards Thinking

Standards help people do their jobs, manage risks, and improve our overall quality of life. However, the way we take in information and get things done is drastically changing, and so standards must change too.

The Innovation Incubator is a Standards Australia initiative to trial and test new ways to develop and deliver standards to end users.

What do users of standards want? Asking this question has led us to the concept of digital standards. This concept delivers more flexible, easy to use and intuitive content.

Another initiative we have been trialing is the idea of translating standards into visual concepts. Rather than reading dense technical text, the content is presented through images or videos.

With the visual standard, icons link to requirements and helpful information, to other standards, and to smart workflows or calculators.

The Incubator is not just exploring how we present our content, but how we develop it as well. Projects are underway where we have crowd-sourced experts as a means of opening up participation more widely.

It is early days for these concepts and many others, but we are excited to see where they could lead to make standards more accessible and of greater value to end users.

28 Sep 2018