NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-27.2 Waste: reporting and review of exposure incidents
Clause and reference core-27.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every incident involving infectious material, body substances or hazardous substances is reported, recorded, investigated and reviewed.
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
- Incident register entries for needlestick, body fluid or chemical exposures
- Investigation reports and corrective actions
- Post-exposure procedure
What assessors commonly find
- Exposure incidents handled informally with no record
- Investigations not closed out
What evidence do I need?
For core-27.2 Waste: reporting and review of exposure incidents, the evidence to bring is: Incident register entries for needlestick, body fluid or chemical exposures; Investigation reports and corrective actions. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-27.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me incident register entries for needlestick, body fluid or chemical exposures, 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