The Online Safety Act compliance checklist

Compliance feels like fog until you can see it as a list. Here is the whole thing on one page. Tick off what you have already done, see what is left, and breathe a little easier.

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1. Scope
- I have confirmed whether my service is a user-to-user service with UK links.If people can post to each other and you have UK users, you are likely in scope.
- I have confirmed whether I am the provider.If you control accounts and posting, that is usually you.
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2. Risk assessments
- I have completed an illegal-content risk assessment.Rate each kind of priority illegal content as negligible, low, medium or high, with reasons.
- I have completed a children's access assessment.Decide whether children are likely to use your service.
- If children can access, I have completed a children's risk assessment.
- I have dated and saved these assessments.

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3. Safety measures

Users have an easy way to report illegal content.
I have a complaints process.
I have a clear approach to content moderation.
I act on illegal content once I am aware of it.

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4. Children's safety (if children can access)

I have applied safer defaults for child accounts.
I keep children away from harmful recommended content.
I use age assurance where my risk assessment requires it.

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5. Records and governance

I have named a person accountable for compliance.
I keep written records of decisions and reviews.
I have a schedule to review when the rules or my service change.

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6. Watch list

I am tracking the children's codes and the incoming under-16 restrictions.

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