The Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) is a new initiative to help prevent and reduce incidents of abuse and neglect in residential aged care services subsidised by the Australian Government. SIRS sets new arrangements for approved providers of residential aged care to manage and take reasonable action to prevent incidents with a focus on the safety, health, well-being and quality of life of aged care consumers.
Approved providers will be required to have in place an effective incident management system and to use this to continuously improve the management and prevention of incidents. Under SIRS, approved providers will be required to report a broader range of incidents to the Commission than previous arrangements. Incidents must be reported within set timeframes depending on the level of impact to the care recipient. See ‘How will the SIRS work?’ below for more details.
Below there are some links to resources you must take the time to look at and also advisable to perhaps watch the webinars which there are links provided for on the agedcarequality.gov.au/sirs
There would be some resources also available at the aged care sites that you will be working however we suggest you familiarise yourselves with as much information on the scheme as possible and if they provide you with further information great.
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/sirs
The Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) webinar #1
The Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) webinar #2 – 11 March 2021
The Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) webinar #3 – 18 March 2021
