NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-24.7 Safe environment: standard infection prevention and control precautions
Clause and reference core-24.7, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Standard infection prevention and control precautions are applied in every setting where supports are provided.
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 covering standard precautions
- Hand hygiene or infection control audits across settings
- Outbreak management plan
What assessors commonly find
- Standard precautions not followed in participants' homes
- No infection control audits
What evidence do I need?
For core-24.7 Safe environment: standard infection prevention and control precautions, the evidence to bring is: Infection prevention and control policy covering standard precautions; Hand hygiene or infection control audits across settings. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-24.7. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me infection prevention and control policy covering standard precautions, 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