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Requirements for the retention of laboratory records and diagnostic material v9
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
9
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
2022
This document describes minimum standards for retention of laboratory records and materials by medical pathology services.
Requirements for information communication and reporting v5
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
ID
D22-32436
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
2022
The document outlines a framework for the communication of pathology information within the request-test-report cycle.
Requirements for the development and use of in-house in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) v4
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
4
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
2018
This document outlines the principles and assessment criteria by which in-house in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) must be designed, developed, produced, validated and monitored for use by medical laboratories in Australia.
Guidelines for approved pathology collection centres v3
Requirements for medical pathology specimen collection
Category
Guideline
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
3
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
2013
These guidelines set out minimum requirements for medical pathology specimen collection. The requirements apply to approved collection centres, hospital collection points and any collection activity connected to an approved pathology authority.
Requirements for the performance of anatomical pathology cut-up v4
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
4
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2013
These requirements set out minimum training and performance standards for anatomical pathology cut-up (grossing).
Performance measures for Australian laboratories reporting cervical cytology v3
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
3
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2015
This document sets out measures and standards for the day-to-day performance of a laboratory reporting cervical cytology.
Requirements for use of digital images as an alternative to direct microscopy v1
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
This document sets out minimum practice requirements for the accreditation of laboratories that use digital technology for primary morphological diagnosis and second opinions.
Requirements for transfusion laboratory practice v5
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
ID
D22-40385
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2022
This document outlines practice standards that assure the safety, quality and efficacy of transfusion testing, associated transfusion laboratory practice, and non-transfusion related blood group immunohaematology testing.
Requirements for procedures related to the collection, processing, storage and issue of human haemopoietic progenitor cells v6
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
6
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
This document outlines the standards that must be met by laboratories and other facilities involved in donor selection, collection, processing, storage and issue or disposal of directed minimally manipulated: haemopoietic progenitor cells (HPC), cord blood, and donor lymphocytes.
Requirements for cervical screening v1
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2023
This document describes the standard of care consumers can expect from pathology laboratories that test self-collected vaginal swabs, specifying the minimum standards that pathology laboratories must meet.
National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2023
The National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards have been developed to protect the public from harm and improve the quality of cosmetic surgery in Australia.
Example Essential Eight Assessment Test Plan - Maturity Level One
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This document describes mitigation strategies, test IDs, control descriptions and test methodologies for assessment against Essential Eight Maturity Level One.
Example Essential Eight Assessment Test Plan - Maturity Level Two
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This document describes mitigation strategies, test IDs, control descriptions and test methodologies for assessment against Essential Eight Maturity Level Two.
Example Essential Eight Assessment Test Plan
Maturity Level Three
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This document describes mitigation strategies, test IDs, control descriptions and test methodologies for assessment against Essential Eight Maturity Level Three.
Essential Eight Assessment Report Template
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
This template provides the content requirements of Essential Eight assessment reports. Assessors can use their own report templates for branding purposes, but all sections within this template must be included.
Essential Eight Maturity Model Changes
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-23
Essential Eight is designed to protect organisations' internet-connected IT networks against cyber threats. This resource describes the changes for the November 2023 update of the Essential Eight Maturity Model.
Essential Eight Maturity Model FAQs
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jul-21
Updated
Apr-24
Essential Eight is designed to protect organisations' internet-connected IT networks against cyber threats. This information was developed to answer frequently asked questions on the Essential Eight Maturity Model.
Essential Eight Maturity Model and ISM Mapping
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jan-19
Updated
Dec-23
Essential Eight is designed to protect organisations' internet-connected IT networks against cyber threats. This publication provides a mapping between the Essential Eight Maturity Model and the Information Security Manual (ISM).
Information Security Manual (ISM)
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
Mar-24
The Information Security Manual (ISM) outlines a cyber security framework that an organisation can apply, using their risk management framework, to protect their systems and data from cyber threats.
Information Security Manual (ISM) Fact Sheet
March 2024 changes
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Mar-24
This factsheet summarises the content changes for the March 2024 Information Security Manual (ISM) update.
Domain Name System Security for Domain Owners
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jan-21
Updated
Oct-21
This publication provides information on Domain Name System (DNS) security for domain owners, as well as mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of misuse of domains and associated resources.
Domain Name System Security for Domain Resolvers
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jan-21
Updated
Oct-21
This publication provides information on Domain Name System (DNS) security for recursive resolution servers, as well as mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of DNS resolver subversion or compromise.
Restricting Administrative Privileges
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jun-11
Updated
Nov-23
This publication provides guidance on how to effectively restrict administrative privileges.
Secure Administration
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Sep-15
Updated
Oct-21
This publication is designed to complement and expand on the guidance in the Information Security Manual (ISM).
Mergers, Acquisitions and Machinery of Government Changes
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jul-19
Updated
Jun-22
This document dicusses the signifiacnt challenges to cyber security faced by organisations when they undergo change.
Planning for Critical Vulnerabilities - What Boards Need to Know
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Dec-23
This publication provides information on why it is important that Boards and their Directors are aware of and plan for critical vulnerabilities that have the potential to cause major cyber security incidents.
Cyber Skills Framework
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Sep-20
Updated
Sep-20
This framework describes core cyber roles, capabilities, skills and proficiency levels.
Cyber Security for Contractors
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Mar-12
Updated
Oct-21
This publication aims to help contractors to appropriately secure Australian Government information on their systems.
Cyber Security Principles
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jun-24
Updated
Jun-24
The cyber security principles provide strategic guidance on how an organisation can protect its systems, applications and data from cyber threats.
Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Nov-19
Updated
May-23
This information provides an overview of managing cyber supply chain risks with links to more detailed information.
Identifying Cyber Supply Chain Risks
Category
Guidance Document
Organisation
Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC)
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jan-21
Updated
May-23
This guidance helps organisations to identify risks associated with the businesses in their cyber supply chain.
Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme Standards
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2016
These standards provide a consistent statement on the level of care consumers can expect from diagnostic imaging practices.
Literature review: Safety and quality in diagnostic imaging
Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
Jul-22
This literature review describes the national and international standards that underpin diagnostic imaging, as well as strategies to improve patient safety, quality and unwarranted variation in diagnostic imaging.
Requirements for human medical genome testing utilising massively parallel sequencing technologies
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2017
This document outlines the minimum best-practice requirements for medical pathology laboratories that conduct human genetic testing using massively parallel sequencing - also known as next-generation sequencing.
Requirements for laboratories reporting tests for the National Cervical Screening Program
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2019
This document sets out the minimum requirements for best-practice use of human papillomavirus (HPV) nucleic acid testing for cervical screening
Requirements for laboratory testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
4
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2023
This document sets out the minimum standards for good pathology practice in Australia for testing for HIV and HCV.
Requirements for medical testing for human genetic variation
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
3
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2022
This standard sets out the expected level of practice required by laboratories for medical testing of heritable and non-heritable human genetic variation.
Requirements for medical testing of microbial nucleic acids
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2013
This standard sets out the requirements that apply to tests for detecting, characterising and quantifying nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) in medical pathology laboratories that test for microorganisms that can or may cause disease in humans.
Requirements for point of care testing
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2021
This standard sets out the minimum requirements for governance, management systems, staff training, safety, environmental issues, and specimen and result integrity related to the performance of point of care testing.
Requirements for quality control, external quality assurance and method evaluation
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
6
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2018
This document outlines the general features that an internal quality control system and an external quality assessment program must have in order to provide an effective monitoring strategy for the various pathology disciplines.
Requirements for semen analysis
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2017
This document sets out the minimum requirements for best practice in performing pathology-based semen analysis.
Requirements for the communication of high risk pathology results
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2020
This document outlines the minimum best-practice standards for the management and communication of high-risk pathology results by the pathology service.
Requirements for the estimation of measurement of uncertainty
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2007
This document provides guidance for pathology laboratories on an acceptable degree of variation in measurements.
Requirements for the facilities and operation of mortuaries
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
3
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2013
This document outlines the minimum best practice for mortuaries in hospitals and forensic units, including design, construction, provision of services and communication.
Requirements for the packaging and transport of pathology specimens and associated materials
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2022
This document sets out the expected policies, procedures and practices that laboratories should use when packaging and transporting pathology specimens and associated materials.
Requirements for validation of self-collected vaginal swabs for use in the National Cervical Screening Program
Category
Standard
Organisation
ACSQHC
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2019
This document sets out the minimum requirements that a laboratory must meet in order to offer testing of self-collected vaginal swabs for human papillomavirus (HPV) as part of the National Cervical Screening Program as an in vitro diagnostic medical device.
E-health web services profiles
Category
Specification
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
ATS 5820-2010
Type
Standard
Access
Fees apply to access
Status
Superseded
Created
Mar-10
This document defines profiles of the SOAP web services specifications.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle indicators
Category
Reference Table
Organisation
AIHW
ID
Cat. no: CWS 84
Type
Standard
Version
1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
Aug-22
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP) indicators present the latest data to assess progress towards implementing the ATSICPP. The ATSICPP aims to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the child protection and out-of-home care systems.