Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00566:reg:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00566
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 45291–48703

5                                                                               section 27                                              clause 27 of Schedule 1

       24  Safe environment

Outcome: Each participant accesses supports in a safe environment that is appropriate to their needs.

         To achieve this outcome, the following indicators should be demonstrated:
           (1) Each participant can easily identify workers who provide supports to them.
           (2) Work is undertaken with each participant, and others, in settings where supports are provided (including their home), to ensure a safe support delivery environment for them.
           (3) Where relevant, work is undertaken with other providers (including health care and allied health providers and providers of other services) to identify and manage risks to participants and to correctly interpret their needs and preferences.
           (4) For each participant requiring support with communication, clear arrangements are in place to assist workers who support them to understand their communication needs and the manner in which they express emerging health concerns.
           (5) To avoid delays in treatments for participants:
              (a) protocols are in place for each participant about how to respond to medical emergencies for them; and
              (b) each worker providing support to them is trained to respond to such emergencies (including how to distinguish between urgent and non‑urgent health situations).
           (6) Systems for escalation are established for each participant in urgent health situations.
           (7) Infection prevention and control standard precautions are implemented throughout all settings in which supports are provided to participants.
           (8) Routine environmental cleaning is conducted of settings in which supports are provided to participants (other than in their homes), particularly of frequently‑touched surfaces.
           (9) Each worker is trained, and has refresher training, in infection prevention and control standard precautions including hand hygiene practices, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette.
           (10) Each worker who provides supports directly to participants is trained, and has refresher training, in the use of PPE.
           (11) PPE is available to each worker, and each participant, who requires it.

       25  Participant Money and Property

Outcome: Participant money and property is secure and each participant uses their own money and property as they determine.

         To achieve this outcome, the following indicators should be demonstrated:
           (1) Where the provider has access to a participant's money or other property, processes to ensure that it is managed, protected and accounted for are developed, applied, reviewed and communicated. Participants' money or other property is only used with the consent of the participant and for the purposes intended by the participant.
           (2) If required, each participant is supported to access and spend their own money as the participant determines.
           (3) Participants are not given financial advice or information other than that which would reasonably be required under the participant's plan.

       26  Management of Medication

Outcome: Each participant requiring medication is confident their provider administers, stores and