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Quality Area 2: Children's Health and Safety

by Giselle Rayward, from the Community

This NQS-aligned checklist helps early childhood services assess and document how they promote children’s health and safety across Quality Area 2. It covers evidence for health needs, sleep and rest, hygiene practices, infection control, healthy eating, and physical activity. It also verifies supervision, hazard controls, equipment condition, first aid supplies, and signage. The template includes indoor and outdoor safety checks, risk assessments, child protection training, and emergency planning, including evacuation and lockdown drills. Use it to review previous actions, record findings, and sign off audits for compliance and continuous improvement.

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Quality Area 2 Childrens Health and Safety Checklist
Use this comprehensive Quality Area 2 checklist to assess childrens health and safety across your early learning service. Review emergency management, premises safety, first aid, chemical handling, hygiene practices, educator supervision, child protection, kitchen and food safety, mealtimes, hydration, safe sleep and SIDS compliance, and documentation such as incident logs, risk assessments, and medical plans. Support continuous improvement against NQS standards with practical prompts for observations, audits, and evidence.
by Briana Thorne, from the Community
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Health and Safety Overview
This Health and Safety Overview template helps education and early childhood services align with NQF, the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, and related regulations. It guides services to document required policies and procedures, manage immunisation and infectious diseases, maintain hazardous chemicals registers and SDS, conduct staff induction and training, and implement risk assessments and consultation. The checklist covers emergency management and evacuation drills, first aid readiness, incident reporting, indoor and outdoor environment safety, hygiene practices including nappy changing and hand washing, and PPE. Use it to track compliance, standardize processes, and improve safety outcomes for children, educators, and visitors.
by Karen Burgess, from the Community
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Monthly Health and Safety Checklist
This monthly health and safety checklist supports early childhood centers in maintaining safe, clean, and compliant environments. It covers indoor maintenance and sanitation, outdoor and playground safety, child tracking and supervision, emergency preparedness, health and nutrition practices, and detailed infant and toddler care standards. Use it to verify ratios, hygiene routines, classroom setup, equipment condition, and required postings, as well as annual facility reviews and licensing documentation. Ideal for childcare administrators and teachers seeking consistent, auditable practices that protect children and meet regulatory requirements.
by Lizzie Friedman, from the Community
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Compliance Visit Checklist
This Compliance Visit Checklist supports early childhood education and care services to verify alignment with national quality requirements. It guides a structured review of indoor and outdoor environments, supervision, hazards, safe drinking water, shading and soft fall. It prompts checks of sleep practices, hygiene, cleaning, furniture safety, ventilation, natural light and temperature. The checklist covers mandatory displays, approvals, assessment and rating certificates, and contact details. It includes office documentation such as incident and illness records, medication and excursion authorizations, risk assessments, attendance, quality improvement plans and compliance history. Staff records include qualifications, working with children checks, training and role acceptances. General visit items address drills, WHS audits, budgets and facility issues.
by Briana Thorne, from the Community
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Quality Area 2: Children's Health and Safety

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