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Quality Standards Resource Centre

The Quality Standards Resource Centre helps extend understanding of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which took effect from 1 November 2025. You can search for resources by using keywords, or filtering by standard, outcome and audience. Before using the Resource Centre, please read the terms of use.

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/quality-standards/first-nations-workplace-poster-standard-1-individual

First Nations - Workplace poster - Standard 1 The individual

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These workplace standards posters demonstrate the strengthened Standards and what they mean for aged care providers and workers. You can print these out and display them around your workplace.

Standard
1: The Individual
Standard 1 thumbnail image
/quality-standards/explaining-aged-care-and-your-rights-locally-tailorable-poster-first-nations-resources

Explaining aged care and your rights – locally tailorable poster - First Nations resources

Poster
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We’ve developed a tailorable poster for you to edit with your own local details, and print and display at community notice boards or waiting areas.

Author
Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission
Standard
1: The Individual, 2: The Organisation
Outcomes
1.1: Person-centred care, 2.6b: Complaints and feedback management for individuals
Explaining aged care and your rights – locally tailorable poster
/quality-standards/poster-principles-safe-and-high-quality-transitions-care

Poster - Principles of safe and high-quality transitions of care

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This resource outlines the principles of safe and high-quality transitions of care. It highlights the importance of person-centred care, multidisciplinary collaboration, and clear communication between providers. It ensures coordination, accountability, and secure documentation to support continuity of care when transferring people between care settings. This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.

Author
Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care
Standard
3: The Care and Services, 7: The Residential Community
Outcomes
3.4: Planning and coordination of funded aged care services, 7.2: Transitions
Poster - Principles of safe and high-quality transitions of care
/quality-standards/infection-prevention-and-control-poster-standard-precautions-poster

Infection Prevention and Control Poster - Standard precautions poster

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This resource is a poster on standard precautions for infection prevention and control in healthcare. It outlines essential practices such as hand hygiene, personal protective equipment use, environmental cleaning, and waste management. The poster helps healthcare workers minimise infection risks and maintain safe care environments. This resource may apply to healthcare contexts outside of aged care. Please consider the applicability of this resource to your care setting.

Author
Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Infection Prevention and Control Poster - Standard precautions poster
/quality-standards/sequence-putting-and-removing-personal-protective-equipment-ppe

Sequence for putting on and removing personal protective equipment (PPE)

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This poster outlines the correct sequence for putting on and removing personal protective equipment (PPE) to reduce the transmission of infectious agents. It provides step-by-step instructions for healthcare workers to ensure safe use of gowns, masks, gloves, and protective eyewear​. 

This resource may apply to healthcare contexts outside of aged care. Please consider the applicability of this resource to your care setting. This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.

Author
Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Sequence for putting on and removing personal protective equipment (PPE)
/quality-standards/standard-and-transmission-based-precautions-posters

Standard and transmission-based precautions posters

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This resource includes posters outlining standard and transmission-based precautions for infection control. It provides guidance on preventing healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene, appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and environmental cleaning. These posters support staff in implementing best practices for infection prevention across care settings, including aged care facilities. 

Author
Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care
Standard
4: The Environment, 5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
4.2: Infection prevention and control, 5.2: Preventing and controlling infections in delivering clinical care services
Standard and transmission-based precautions posters
/quality-standards/isbar-poster

ISBAR Poster

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This poster is a tool for improving clinical handover. It outlines the principles of ISBAR: Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation. This supports clinical conversations to be clear, focused and relevant. 

This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.

Author
Australian Commission On Safety And Quality In Health Care
Standard
5: Clinical Care
Outcomes
5.4: Comprehensive care
ISBAR Poster