NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.4 Mealtime management: workers know needs and choking response
Clause and reference core-26a.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker providing mealtime management understands the mealtime needs of the participants they support and what to do if a safety incident occurs during a meal, such as coughing or choking on food or fluids.
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
- Worker briefings or sign-off on each participant's mealtime plan
- Choking response procedure and first aid training records
- Incident records of mealtime events and the response given
What assessors commonly find
- Workers cannot describe the participant's texture requirements
- No documented choking response steps
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.4 Mealtime management: workers know needs and choking response, the evidence to bring is: Worker briefings or sign-off on each participant's mealtime plan. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me worker briefings or sign-off on each participant's mealtime 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