Aged Care Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) Notification

Reportable incident notifications and records under the aged care Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS), as continued by the Aged Care Act 2024 (Cth) and the Aged Care Rules 2025 from 1 November 2025, for a named older person receiving funded aged care services (residential care homes and services in home or community settings, including Support at Home). Covers the eight reportable incident types (unreasonable use of force, unlawful sexual contact or inappropriate sexual conduct, psychological or emotional abuse, unexpected death, stealing or financial coercion by a staff member, neglect, inappropriate use of a restrictive practice, unexplained absence from care) and the Priority 1 (report within 24 hours) / Priority 2 (report within 30 calendar days) classification. A populated record names the provider, the older person, the aged care worker or subject of allegation, the incident date, type and priority, and the response (police notified, medical treatment, supporters informed). ACQSC guidance, quick guides, SIRS statistics and blank forms are decoys. Structure modelled on au-ndis-reportable-incident, which covers the NDIS scheme; NDIS signals are excluded from this classifier's enforce tiers, but an aged care SIRS record can also reach 75 in the NDIS classifier because both share generic labels (provider, worker, date of incident).

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the SIRS scheme name and the aged care incident-type wording are distinctive, but ACQSC guidance, provider policies, training and SIRS insight reports repeat them. Enforce tiers require populated older-person / provider / incident fields. No public SIRS notification number format is used. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy; test values are synthetic.
Jurisdictions: au
Regulations: Aged Care Act 2024 (Cth), Aged Care Rules 2025 (Cth)
Frameworks: QGISCF
Data categories: health, pii, law-enforcement
Scope: narrow
Risk rating: 9
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:Serious\s+Incident\s+Response\s+Scheme|SIRS\s+(?:notification|report|incident|priority|portal|reference|submission|P[12])|Priority\s+[12]\s+reportable\s+incident|reportable\s+incident\s+(?:notification|report)|unreasonable\s+use\s+of\s+force|unexplained\s+absence(?:\s+from\s+care)?|stealing\s+or\s+financial\s+coercion|inappropriate\s+use\s+of\s+(?:a\s+)?restrictive\s+practices?|unlawful\s+sexual\s+contact\s+or\s+inappropriate\s+sexual\s+conduct|psychological\s+or\s+emotional\s+abuse)\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, police, within 24 hours, 30 days, medical treatment, behaviour support plan, supporter, older person, aged care worker, residential care home

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

SIRS notification - Priority 1 Provider: Wattle Grove Residential Care Home Older person: Edna Fictiona Date of birth: 02/05/1936 Incident type: unreasonable use of force Date of incident: 15/09/2026 Aged care worker: Tomas Sampleby The older person has bruising to both forearms and was reviewed by the GP; police notified within 24 hours. — 85 tier - Priority 1 notification with provider, older person, DOB, type, date and worker plus police / 24 hours
Priority 2 reportable incident Resident: Walter Mockridge A staff member spoke to the resident in a demeaning way during a shower on the evening shift. — 75 tier - Priority 2 incident note with one populated resident field
Serious Incident Response Scheme - reportable incident report Service: Support at Home - Coral Coast Council Community Care Individual: Mavis Testarossa Priority: 2 The client reported that a support worker took $200 from her purse. Reported to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission within 30 days. — 85 tier - Support at Home report with service, individual and priority plus Commission / 30 days
Unexplained absence from care Care recipient: Harold Fakeley Date and time identified: 09/09/2026 21:40 The resident was located at a nearby bus stop after 50 minutes; police were called. — 85 tier - unexplained absence with care recipient and dated identification plus police

Should not match

You must report Priority 1 incidents to the Commission within 24 hours of becoming aware of the incident, and Priority 2 incidents within 30 calendar days. The Serious Incident Response Scheme applies to registered providers of residential care homes and services in home or community settings. See agedcarequality.gov.au. — ACQSC quick guide
SIRS notification form Provider: __________ Older person: __________ Incident type: [select] Date of incident: __________ Priority: ____ — Blank SIRS form
The Commission received 58,000 notifications under the Serious Incident Response Scheme in 2024-25; unreasonable use of force remained the most reported incident type, the SIRS insights report shows. — Published SIRS statistics
ICU progress note Patient: Ronald Testhouse Date of birth: 04/04/1950 Meets SIRS criteria (temperature 38.9, HR 118); systemic inflammatory response syndrome - start sepsis pathway. — Clinical note using SIRS in the sepsis sense
Reportable incident notification Participant: Jamie Teston NDIS number: 431982045 Incident type: unlawful physical contact Reported to the NDIS Commission within 24 hours. — NDIS reportable incident (covered by au-ndis-reportable-incident)
Priority 1 incident INC0048812 Service: Exchange Online Client: Finance division Incident date: 15/09/2026 Mail flow restored after 42 minutes; problem record raised. — IT service-management Priority 1 incident ticket
Training exercise: staff review a case study on inappropriate use of a restrictive practice and discuss when it becomes a Priority 1 incident. — Training material

Known false positives

ACQSC guidance, quick guides, provider incident management policies and training use the same incident types and priorities. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated fields and exclude agedcarequality.gov.au, "you must report", "providers must", guidance and policy signals.
Clinical notes use SIRS for systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Mitigation: Bare "SIRS" is not a primary, and sepsis / systemic inflammatory response signals are excluded from enforce tiers.
NDIS reportable incident records share "reportable incident notification" and similar labels. Mitigation: NDIS Commission / NDIS participant / NDIS number signals are excluded here; those records belong to au-ndis-reportable-incident.
SIRS insights reports and news statistics. Mitigation: No populated person or provider fields, so these stay at 65 discovery.