The EEA facilitates several working groups to develop engineering, technical and safety standards, guidelines and best practice documents that support, improve and build on the knowledge and understanding of industry safety. The full suite of EEA digital publications including the SM-EI is available to publications licence holders via the Knowledge Network.

Important notice: Restrictions on use of AI tools in relation to EEA publications

The EEA allows the use of AI tools and platforms to analyse and provide outputs in relation to publications available on the official EEA website provided that the publications are not used by the AI Platform to train its large language model (LLM) or otherwise improve its performance or functionality. 

There are two reasons why we do not permit AI Platforms to use our publications to train their LLMs.  Firstly, these publications contain intellectual property and this use would constitute a breach of EEA’s copyright in, and cause damage to, our publications. Secondly, this use undermines our ability to ensure that only the most accurate, up-to-date, information and practice is in circulation and being relied on by electricity sector workers.

Consequently, users need to ensure that any use of an AI Platform complies with this requirement. It is essential that users undertake their own due diligence on an AI Platform prior to using it to ensure that the platform will not use EEA’s publications to train its LLM or otherwise improve its performance or functionality.

We are currently investigating options to integrate an AI tool into our publications website for members’ use and will keep members updated on progress.  Contact admin@eea.co.nz if you have any questions or concerns.