Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-2.7 Risk management system for individuals, workers and operations
Clause and reference 15-15(7) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-2.7
The requirement
The provider works through a risk management system to spot, handle and keep reviewing the risks to the people it serves, its aged care workers and its operations.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Risk management framework and risk registers covering individuals, workers and operations
- Risk treatment plans and review records
- Risk data analysis reported to governance
What assessors commonly find
- Clinical and individual risks absent from the corporate risk register
- Risks not reviewed after incidents
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-2.7 Risk management system for individuals, workers and operations, the evidence to bring is: Risk management framework and risk registers covering individuals, workers and operations; Risk treatment plans and review records. It sits under Standard 2 - The organisation and the instrument's own clause is 15-15(7). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me risk management framework and risk registers covering individuals, workers and operations, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading