NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-24.9 Safe environment: worker training in hand, respiratory and cough hygiene
Clause and reference core-24.9, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker is trained, and receives refresher training, in standard infection prevention and control precautions, including hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette.
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 control training records with completion and refresher dates
- Training register showing coverage of all workers
- Training module content on hand and respiratory hygiene
What assessors commonly find
- Refresher training overdue
- Casual workers not captured in the training register
What evidence do I need?
For core-24.9 Safe environment: worker training in hand, respiratory and cough hygiene, the evidence to bring is: Infection control training records with completion and refresher dates. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-24.9. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me infection control training records with completion and refresher dates, 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