Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-4.3 Safe equipment that meets individuals' needs
Clause and reference 15-25(3) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-4.3
The requirement
Equipment the provider uses to deliver funded aged care, or gives to a person, is safe and answers the person's needs.
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
- Equipment register with maintenance and inspection records
- Assessment of equipment suitability for each individual
What assessors commonly find
- Equipment not serviced
- Equipment issued without suitability assessment
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-4.3 Safe equipment that meets individuals' needs, the evidence to bring is: Equipment register with maintenance and inspection records; Assessment of equipment suitability for each individual. It sits under Standard 4 - The environment and the instrument's own clause is 15-25(3). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me equipment register with maintenance and inspection records, 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