Falls risk home safety audit software
Home safety audits for older people are carried out by occupational therapists and aged care providers to find what might cause a fall: a step without a rail, a loose rug, a bathroom with no grab rail beside the toilet. The report goes to the client, their family and often a funding body that has to approve the modifications. SurveyThanks captures each room’s hazards with measurements, so the modification request is specific enough to quote.
Built for aged care providers running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Falls risk audit
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Falls risk audit
Home safety audit — client at 19 Placeholder Avenue (fictional)
- Referral
- Aged care provider, following a fall in the bathroom
- Audit date
- 6 August 2026
- Mobility
- Walks with a four-wheeled frame
| Room | Hazard | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| Bathroom | No grab rail at the toilet; shower hob 120 mm | Recommendation: Modify |
| Front entry | Two steps, no handrail | Recommendation: Modify |
| Hallway | Loose runner rug | Recommendation: Remove |
| Bedroom | Night light fitted; clear path to the bathroom | Recommendation: Adequate |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the falls risk audit where your template puts it.
Client
- Mobility aid used
- Falls history
- Who else lives in the home
Per room
- Room
- Hazards found
- Measurements (step heights, door widths)
- Lighting adequate (Y / N)
- Photo
Modifications
- Recommended modification
- Priority
- Minor or major modification
- Funding pathway noted
How the falls risk audit gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the senior home safety audit form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your rooms and external areas
Enter rooms and external areas once, as a register. Every one of your defects, photos and timber pest findings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The falls risk audit renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a falls risk audit must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The summary says no major defects were found; the form carries a major structural defect on the rear wall.
Checks a residential property framework usually carries
- The standard’s required wording, limitations and exclusions are all present
- Every area is either reported on or listed as not accessed, with a reason
- Each defect in the summary appears in the body at the same severity
- Timber pest findings carry the risk statement the standard requires
Questions
- Can we record measurements for the builder to quote from?
- Yes. Step heights, door widths and hob heights are number fields in each room’s section, and they render into the modification schedule exactly as entered.
- Can the client’s family get a copy?
- You can send the report as a file or a password-protected link to anyone you choose. There is no client or family portal.
- Why are no standards cited for home safety audits?
- Home modification work draws on clinical judgement and funding-body guidelines that vary by program. Upload the guidelines you work to and the drafting step cites them.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other residential property work we cover
- Retaining wall assessmentsWall condition report
- Routine rental inspectionsRoutine inspection report
- Short-stay property auditsListing readiness report
- Strata common property inspectionsCommon property report
- Termite inspectionsTimber pest report
- Apartment defect surveysDefect evidence report
- Blind cord safety auditsCord safety report
- Boundary tree dispute reportsArborist boundary report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your falls risk audit in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.