NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-26a.9 Mealtime management: safe storage and identification of participant meals
Clause and reference core-26a.9, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Meals for participants needing mealtime management are stored safely and in line with health standards, and can be easily identified as belonging to a particular participant and told apart from meals not intended for them.
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
- Food storage and labelling procedure
- Fridge temperature logs
- Labelled meal containers with participant name and texture level
What assessors commonly find
- Unlabelled pre-prepared meals in shared fridges
- No temperature monitoring of stored meals
What evidence do I need?
For core-26a.9 Mealtime management: safe storage and identification of participant meals, the evidence to bring is: Food storage and labelling procedure; Fridge temperature logs. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-26a.9. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me food storage and labelling procedure, 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