Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-4.1 Supporting individuals to mitigate environmental risks at home
Clause and reference 15-25(1) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-4.1
The requirement
When funded aged care is delivered in a person's home, the provider supports the person to reduce the environmental risks that bear on those services.
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
- Home environment risk assessments
- Records of risk mitigation options discussed with the individual
What assessors commonly find
- Home risks noted by workers but never discussed with the individual
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-4.1 Supporting individuals to mitigate environmental risks at home, the evidence to bring is: Home environment risk assessments; Records of risk mitigation options discussed with the individual. It sits under Standard 4 - The environment and the instrument's own clause is 15-25(1). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me home environment risk assessments, 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