My onboarding

myDATA

Managing safe people

Released
24/02/2025

Enrol in training

Click on the ‘My onboarding’ tile and select the ‘Enrol in training’ button.  

Enrol in training button location

Select the magnifying glass to bring up the list of available sessions, and choose your preferred session by ticking the box on the left.  

Confirm your action by clicking Select.

available training and selection button location

Session details are displayed. Click ‘Submit’ and then ‘Ok’ to confirm. 

The ‘Enrolled training’ table will now be updated with your session date and time. 

You will receive an email with the training session details, including a meeting link for a virtual session, and physical training address for face-to-face.

Pre-reading

After enrolling in a DataLab Safe Researcher training session, you will automatically have access to the pre-training reading material.  

This is available from the ‘Forms and quiz’ view of the ‘My onboarding’ table.

Forms and quiz location

To download a document in the Forms and quiz section, click the arrow to the right of the row, and select ‘View’.

Location of the 'View' drop down selection

Select the file and save it to your computer. 

Completing training forms and quiz

Onboarding forms will be available upon completion of training. 

You will be notified by email when your onboarding forms and quiz are available to download. You will find these in the same place as the pre-training reading material - the 'Forms and quiz' view of the ‘My onboarding’ table. 

Completed forms and quiz are to be returned to info@mydata.abs.gov.au.

You will be notified when your onboarding is complete.

No sessions suitable

If the training sessions listed are not suitable, you can elect to be placed on a waitlist. Click ‘No session suitable’ button. 

Location of the No session suitable button

You will see the above message. ABS will contact you within two business days. If no response is received, please email info@mydata.abs.gov.au.

Cancelling or rescheduling a session

If you need to reschedule your training session, you will need to cancel your current enrolment. Select the drop-down arrow to the right of the table row and click ‘Cancel’ and then ‘Confirm’. 

Showing drop down location to 'Cancel' training

Once you have cancelled a session, you can then enrol in another session. 

Further information on DataLab onboarding

Safe researcher training outlines:

  • what is safe researcher training
  • refresher training, and
  • safe researcher training resources.
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