Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia)
Standard 2 - The organisation

Aged Care Quality Standards (Australia) ACQS25-2.8: 15-15(8) Incident management system that safeguards and learns

What does ACQS25-2.8 require?

The provider must use an incident management system to (a) safeguard individuals, and (b) acknowledge, respond to, effectively manage and learn from incidents.

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What else in your programme already covers this

This control maps to 5 controls across 3 other frameworks. If you already hold one of them, the evidence you collected for it is the starting point here rather than new work.

Aged Care Act 2024 (Australia) · 2 controls

  • 164.a Section 164(a): implement and maintain an incident management system
  • 164.b Section 164(b): manage incidents and take reasonable steps to prevent them

Australia NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators · 2 controls

  • core-14.1 Incident management: proportionate system complying with the incident rules
  • m6-5.1 Incident management (verification): proportionate incident system meeting the Rules

Aged Care Quality Standards 2019 (repealed edition) · 1 control

  • 8(3)(d) Requirement 8(3)(d) Effective risk management systems and practices

Every mapping shown was judged rather than inferred from wording similarity, and the ones that failed review are published too. See the coverage reports and what was rejected.

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