Includes current Australian and New Zealand standards, draft standards and amendments. Australian Standards are protected by copyright law and a licence agreement. It is possible to set up alerts to keep track of updates to standards.
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Intertek provides the platform for TAFE NSW staff and students to access the products of Standards Australia online.
Our subscription includes current Australian and New Zealand standards, draft standards and amendments.
You can access our subscription via the logo above, or via our TAFE NSW Libraries A - Z eResources.
Australian Standards are protected by copyright law and a licence agreement. The licence agreement is standard across all educational institutions in Australia.
A watermark with your name will be inserted on any document you download, down the left hand side of every page.
The licence agreement allows you to:
The licence agreement does not allow:
The licence agreement also allows you as a teacher to print class sets if:
Library staff can help you to make a copy of the standard for yourself.
Standards ensure the quality and consistency of products and services.
Standards Australia is the country's peak standards development body. It develops standards, technical specifications, handbooks and other publications, and participates in international standards development.
On their own, standards are voluntary. There is no requirement for the public to comply with standards. However State and Commonwealth governments often refer to Australian Standards (AS) or joint Australian/New Zealand Standards (AS/NZS) in their legislation. When this happens, these standards can become mandatory, for example the AS for Wiring Rules.
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On a TAFE NSW Library computer, you will need:
All necessary software is already installed.
On other computers including your own device, you will need:
Note: You can only access a standard from the device you have downloaded it to. You cannot save a Standard to the Cloud or to another device. To access via another device, you will need to download the standard again.
Note: To read a downloaded Standard on a computer you must open it in a PDF reader, NOT an internet browser.
If GOSP is enabled in Adobe Reader and you try to open a Standard the below warning will appear.
What GOSP is from Intertek:
The Global Object Security Policy (GOSP) is a setting in the Adobe Reader, Acrobat and PDF-XChange apps that controls how cookies behave. The default setting is "enable global object security policy" which means that every time someone renames a file or moves a file to a different location, a different cookie is created each time.
Disabling the "global object security policy" does NO HARM to your computer. It is simply a mechanism to create a single tracking ID (or cookie) on your computer, no different than how a browser session tracks cookies as well.
To disable the GOSP complete the following steps.
Step 1: Press CTRL + K to open Preferences, or click Menu > Preferences.
Step 2: Select JavaScript, then UNCHECK Enable global object security policy, click OK.
Once you have downloaded your personalised standard you must print from the computer that you downloaded the Standard to.
To print from your device directly to a TAFE NSW printer:
To print at a commercial printer:
To print from a device such as your phone or an iPad:
VETRes offers a printing, binding and postage service for Australian Standards. TAFE NSW students pay a cost price only, plus a small shipping fee. More information is available on our FAQs and Technical Help page.
Teachers can arrange to have class sets printed via the HVPC. Printing via the HVPC:
Licence conditions include that:
