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# 2025 Releases

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## November 2025 Release

Powerful new tools to help you centralise your decision-making and manage complaints with confidence.

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**Complaints Management**

* Add a public complaints form directly to your website — submissions go straight into your register without any manual work
* The system guides you through acknowledgement and resolution, with reminders so nothing is missed
* Record your investigation and mark outcomes clearly — a complete and reliable record from start to finish

<a href="https://help.rtosafe.com.au/complaints/complaints-workflow" class="button primary">Learn more</a>

**Meeting Register**

* Centralise your decision-making — record meeting minutes, track attendance, and log formal decisions in one secure place
* Trigger Tasks, Risks, and CI outcomes directly from agenda items, so important discussions lead to real progress

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* **Link CI to Risks**: Create a Continuous Improvement item straight from a Risk record — show auditors you identified a problem and immediately created a plan to fix it
* **Weekly Admin Alerts**: Get a weekly email summary of what needs attention — expiring documents, overdue tasks — so you stay on top of deadlines even during busy weeks
* **Employment History**: Record a trainer's past jobs and link them to the products they deliver — clear, mapped evidence of current industry experience on the Trainer Matrix
* **PD: Multiple Competency Areas**: Link a single PD activity to multiple competency areas at once — no more entering the same session twice

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<div class="help-update-date">1 October 2025</div>
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## October 2025 Release

New tools to make compliance smoother and help you stay audit-ready with less effort.

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**Professional Development Plans**

* Create annual PD plans for each staff member — essential now that everyone in your RTO needs PD under the 2025 Standards
* Staff can see their own plans and track progress throughout the year
* Automated reminders when they're falling behind

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**Risk-Based Validation Schedule**

* Assign risk levels to each training product and RTOSafe automatically builds your validation schedule
* The 2025 Standards make it clear that validation must be driven by risk — this takes the guesswork out
* No more spreadsheets needed

<a href="https://help.rtosafe.com.au/scope-and-validation/validations/validation-strategy-risk-levels" class="button primary">Learn more</a>

**AI-Powered Risk Register**

* RTOSafe now suggests potential risks you might have missed, personalised to your RTO's operations
* Get ideas for risk controls to address each risk

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**Export All Your Compliance Data**

* Export your data including Excel and PDF reports of all your registers — perfect for audits or backups
* Everything comes in a single zip file, making audit preparation simpler than ever

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* **Policies connected to CI**: When a policy or document changes, it's automatically logged in your CI Register — one less manual step
* **Stakeholder Engagement Register**: Keep all your stakeholder feedback and engagement in one place — not just industry, but community, employers, and partners too

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<div class="help-update-date">22 April 2025</div>
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## April 2025 Release

New AI-powered tools to help you map policies, track improvements, and find gaps before auditors do.

#### Auto Mapper

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* AI scans all your uploaded documents and maps the most relevant policies, procedures, and evidence to each clause
* Creates a clear written summary explaining how your RTO meets that specific requirement
* Access it from the **Actions** menu when you open a clause

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#### Continuous Improvement System

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* Move beyond spreadsheets with a structured 4-step process: Draft → In Progress → Review → Closed
* Create tasks with due dates and assign them to staff
* Review outcomes before closing — a critical step most RTOs miss
* Create CI initiatives directly from the standards as you prepare for 2025

<a href="https://help.rtosafe.com.au/continuous-improvement/continuous-improvement" class="button primary">Learn more</a>

#### Policy Gap Report

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* Scan all your policies against every clause in the 2025 Standards with one click
* Get a comprehensive report showing which clauses need attention
* Generate recommendations for the gaps found

<a href="https://help.rtosafe.com.au/policies-and-procedures/policy-analysis" class="button primary">Learn more</a>

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* **Feature Board**: Request features directly from the Help menu and vote on suggestions from other RTOs — we prioritise what the community needs most
* **Staff Agreements by Department**: Control which policies staff acknowledge based on their department, with weekly email reminders
* **Controlled System Access**: Adjust access levels in each staff member's profile to control what they can see and do
* **Overdue Task Reminders**: Staff receive weekly email reminders for overdue compliance tasks
* **Import Evidence Tool**: Copy evidence from one clause to another instead of re-linking the same documents
* **Clause Navigation**: Navigate between clauses with forward and back buttons instead of returning to the index
* **Task Deletion**: Tasks can now be deleted completely, with an audit trail of who deleted them
* **Unique Identifiers**: Every document, task, and CI activity now has its own ID (DOC-1, TASK-1, CI-1) for easy reference

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