SIRS deadline calculator
Have you already missed the SIRS window?
Enter the moment your organisation became aware of the incident and the assessed priority. Priority 1 is 24 hours from awareness. Priority 2 is 30 calendar days from awareness, not business days. The calculator flags when the deadline lands on a weekend or public holiday, as an operational risk to plan around, never as a legal extension.
This is guidance, not a determination or legal advice. Whether an incident is reportable under SIRS, and at what priority, is a judgement your organisation's nominated delegate must confirm. SIRS rules change: always verify current requirements against current ACQSC guidance and your own SIRS policy before you act. When you are genuinely unsure, the safer default most quality consultants recommend is to report.
Use the moment you became aware, not the moment the incident happened, if they differ. That is what starts the clock. A historical disclosure starts a fresh clock from the disclosure.
Why the clock starts at awareness
The SIRS clock does not start when the incident happened. It starts at the moment your organisation became aware of it. That distinction matters most for historical disclosures: if a person receiving care discloses today something that happened months ago, a fresh clock starts today. Most organisations do not timestamp awareness at all, so they cannot prove to themselves, or to the Commission, when the clock actually started.
Read more: when does the SIRS clock actually start?Calendar days, not business days
A common and costly misconception is that Priority 2 gives 30 business days. It does not: it is 30 calendar days. Treating it as business days produces a deadline that is too generous, and that is exactly the kind of error that leads to a late notification. This calculator only uses weekends and public holidays to warn you that your office may be unstaffed on the due date, so you can roster someone to lodge it. The deadline itself never moves.
Primary source
This page is based on guidance published by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) under the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Aged Care Rules 2025, in force from 1 November 2025.
How Teiro helps
The record already exists by the time the clock is running
Teiro captures the incident at the point of care, timestamps the moment your team became aware of it, surfaces the classification question to your reviewer with the facts already attached, tracks the deadline once a priority is assigned, and produces the record you need to lodge your SIRS notification. The decision about whether something is reportable, and at what priority, stays with your organisation's delegate. Teiro makes sure that decision gets made in time, by the right person, with the facts already in front of them.
Teiro does not determine reportability, and does not submit notifications to the ACQSC or the NDIS Commission on your behalf. It produces the record your delegate needs to make the call and lodge it.
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