Why Australia has no independent safe-testing body

Diagram of layered security around an artwork: perimeter, building shell, interior zone, display or store, and the object

A bloke rang me last month wanting to know if the safe he’d bought off a pallet sale was “AS 3809 rated.” He had a sticker on the door that said so. No certificate, no test number, nothing. Just a sticker. That conversation happens more than you’d think, and it’s the reason I wanted to […]