NDIS Practice Standards
m6-3.5 Risk management (verification): infection prevention precautions in all settings
Clause and reference m6-3.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Standard infection prevention and control precautions are put in place in every setting where the provider delivers supports, including participants' homes, the community and the provider's own premises.
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 procedure covering home, community and clinic settings
- Hand hygiene and cleaning checklists
- Outbreak management records where an outbreak occurred
What assessors commonly find
- Infection control procedure covers only the clinic
- No supplies for hand hygiene during home visits
What evidence do I need?
For m6-3.5 Risk management (verification): infection prevention precautions in all settings, the evidence to bring is: Infection prevention and control procedure covering home, community and clinic settings; Hand hygiene and cleaning checklists. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-3.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me infection prevention and control procedure covering home, community and clinic settings, 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