Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-4.5 Hygienic practice and IPC precautions by workers
Clause and reference 15-25(5) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-4.5
The requirement
The provider makes sure aged care workers use hygienic practice and take the right infection prevention and control precautions while delivering funded aged care.
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
- Hand hygiene audits
- IPC training records
- Observation of PPE use
What assessors commonly find
- Hand hygiene audits not done
- PPE used incorrectly
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-4.5 Hygienic practice and IPC precautions by workers, the evidence to bring is: Hand hygiene audits; IPC training records. It sits under Standard 4 - The environment and the instrument's own clause is 15-25(5). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me hand hygiene audits, 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