The Automate tier includes automated regulatory scanning, compliance drift detection, and impact analysis. These features watch the regulatory environment continuously and flag items in your task list that match your regulatory exposure.
Regulatory scanning
The Regulatory Scan looks at the Federal Register and State equivalents to find new rules, amendments, and withdrawals that match the scope you defined during onboarding (e.g. “construction”, “IT”, “public sector”, or “manufacturing”).
Each match is logged as a Regulatory Change task. You review the summary and decide whether the change applies to your organisation; if it does, ReFresh creates a new Compliance Task to action that change.
The scan runs continuously; new matches are delivered to your task list as they appear in the Federal Register.
Compliance drift detection
The Compliance Drift Detector runs weekly and compares your declared compliance posture (data you’ve entered in ReFresh) against the current state of your policies, procedures, and worker responses.
If there’s a mismatch, the detector logs it as a Compliance Drift task. For example:
You declared that “All workers complete annual WHS training”, but the training log shows a lapse.
You declared that “We follow [specific regulation]”, but the linked policy document hasn’t been reviewed in 18 months.
You set a cycle for policy refreshment, but a policy is now overdue.
Each drift detector task links you to the specific evidence, worker record, or policy that needs attention.
Impact analysis
When a new regulation is flagged by the Regulatory Scan or you manually import a new regulatory requirement, the Impact Analyzer attempts to match it against your existing policies and procedures in ReFresh.
The analyzer produces a summary of where the requirement might apply within your business: e.g. “This change affects your hiring process, onboarding, and annual certifications”. You can then decide which areas need a Compliance Task.