Using Strobe to manage obligations, evidence and assurance workflows

Strobe is the AWS governance, risk and compliance platform. It holds obligations, controls, evidence and assurance activity in a single auditable structure so the workplace risk operating model is supported by technology rather than spreadsheets and shared drives.

Strobe is designed around how workplace risk is actually managed — across employment, WHS, conduct and workforce governance — rather than as a generic compliance tool.

Strobe's obligations layer captures legislative, regulatory, contractual and policy requirements relevant to the workforce, with the source, the substance, the affected population and the responsible owner held against each. Updates flow through to the linked controls and evidence so the framework remains current.

Holding obligations in one place — rather than across multiple spreadsheets owned by different teams — reduces the risk of orphaned obligations and inconsistent interpretations.

Each obligation is linked to one or more controls in Strobe, with named owners and defined operating expectations. Control owners can see what they are responsible for, what evidence is expected, and when assurance activity is due.

Where controls operate at the limits of their effectiveness, that risk is visible in the platform rather than hidden in informal practice.

Strobe supports the collection of evidence as part of normal operations — training completion, sample checks, acknowledgements, system reports, attestations. Evidence is held against the control it supports, with the date, source and reviewer captured.

Exceptions are routed through workflow to the appropriate owner rather than collected at the end of an assurance cycle.

Strobe holds assurance activity — planning, execution, findings, actions, verification — in the same structure as the obligations and controls it tests. Boards, audit committees and executives see reporting built from the underlying data, with a consistent picture across cycles.

The same structure supports regulator engagement, internal audit and external assurance without requiring the framework to be reassembled for each audience.

AWS supports employers across operating-model design, Strobe configuration, content build, integration with existing systems and capability uplift. The work is scoped to the organisation's existing obligations and controls rather than imposing a new structure on top of them.