Aged Care Safety Risk Assessment

Product Overview

This risk assessment covers aged care safety activities, including governance, consultation, staffing, resident mobility, infection controls, maintenance, emergencies and incident review. It supports planning by identifying hazards and considering controls for resident and worker safety across care activities.

Activities & Risks Covered

This assessment addresses activities and risks including:

• Set WHS objectives, responsibilities, reporting and resources for aged care safety risks
• Consult workers and relevant parties about changes, hazards and shared work arrangements
• Assess and review risks to reflect resident needs, workplace conditions, incidents and changes
• Verify worker induction, competence and supervision for care activities and equipment use
• Plan staffing, rosters and workload controls to address fatigue, aggression, trauma and psychosocial hazards
• Maintain current mobility information and provide suitable people-handling systems
• Manage infection controls, chemicals, contamination and related reporting
• Inspect, isolate, repair and verify defective equipment and facilities
• Coordinate contractor, supplier, labour hire and purchasing safety arrangements
• Prepare, test and review emergency roles, equipment, communication and response arrangements
• Report, investigate, trend and communicate incidents, near misses and corrective actions
• Maintain accessible, current procedures, plans, forms and assurance activities

Who is this for?

Suitable for businesses, supervisors, workers, contractors and other people involved in aged care activities.

Activities & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

The template records model guidance used to inform the documented controls. Applicable WHS/OHS laws and adopted Codes vary by state or territory, so confirm the current local requirements when tailoring the assessment:

• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work — 5 Control the risks; p. 24.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks — 5. Step 4 — How to review controls; p. 27.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination — 3. What is effective consultation?; p. 13.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of fatigue at work — Provide sufficient breaks while at work; p. 30.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace — 2.1 How to identify which chemicals are hazardous; p. 15.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: First aid in the workplace — 3. First aid equipment, facilities and training; p. 12.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks — 4.1 The hierarchy of control measures; p. 31.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace — 2.1 Identifying the hazards; p. 14.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing the work environment and facilities — 2. The work environment; p. 13.
• Model guidance: Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of plant in the workplace — Assessing plant risks — work practices and procedures; p. 20.

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Standard Risk Assessment Features (Click to Expand)

• Activity-specific hazard identification and control measures
• Initial and residual risk ratings
• Assigned responsible persons for each activity
• Risk matrix and assessment classification
• Review, monitoring and sign-off fields
• Site-specific customisation before use