NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-10.4 Risk management: infection and outbreak prevention and control
Clause and reference core-10.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Where relevant to its supports, the provider's risk management system includes measures to prevent and control infection and outbreaks.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Infection prevention and control policy and outbreak management plan
- PPE stock and supply records
- Records of outbreak response or exercises
What assessors commonly find
- Outbreak plan written during a past pandemic and never updated
- No PPE stock plan for home-based supports
What evidence do I need?
For core-10.4 Risk management: infection and outbreak prevention and control, the evidence to bring is: Infection prevention and control policy and outbreak management plan; PPE stock and supply records. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-10.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me infection prevention and control policy and outbreak management plan, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading