-
By industryChildcare Centres Class 1Delivery logs, FSS tracking, supplier vault, one-click audit pack.Food Manufacturing Class 1–2HACCP PRP tracking, production records, supplier compliance.Hospitality, Café & Catering Class 1–3Temperature logs, allergen controls, multi-site catering records.Aged Care Standard 6Resident dietary risk, food & nutrition compliance, EHO-ready reporting.For consultantsConsultant DashboardReview all clients, sign off corrective actions, generate audit reports.Onboard Your ClientsComplete the FSP. Send one link. Clients connected automatically.Managing multiple clients? See the dashboard →
- How It Works
- Pricing
Food & nutrition compliance
for aged care.
Built for Standard 6.
EthicalHub is building a dedicated module for Standard 6 — Food and Nutrition — under the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards. Resident dietary risk, kitchen HACCP, and self-assessment evidence, in one place.
We're building this with a small number of aged care providers and consultants — not selling it as a finished product. If you're evaluating Standard 6 readiness now, we'd like to build it with you.
Standard 6 is specific —
and unforgiving.
The Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards came into force on 1 November 2025, alongside the Aged Care Act 2024. Standard 6 covers Food and Nutrition specifically, and applies only to residential care homes.
What Standard 6 actually requires.
Each outcome carries its own actions and its own evidence trail. This is the structure our self-assessment dashboard is built around.
Partnering with Older People
Providers work with residents to shape food services and dining experiences that reflect their preferences — and act on the feedback they give.
Assessment of Nutritional Needs
Each resident's nutrition, hydration, and dining needs are assessed regularly — and reassessed as those needs change.
Provision of Food and Drink
Meals and drinks must be appetising, nutritious, and safe — with genuine choice, and nutritious snacks available 24/7.
Dining Experience
Residents are supported to eat and drink in a way that preserves dignity, independence, and the chance to share meals with others.
Source: Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, Strengthened Quality Standards — Food and Nutrition guidance, updated 17 October 2025.
Standard 6 sits on top of
Standard 3.3.1.
Food & nutrition compliance in aged care isn't only the new quality standard. It's still governed by Standard 3.3.1 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code — and aged care residents carry materially higher risk than the general population.
Prepared food held for service must stay above this threshold throughout the holding period.
Refrigerated storage for high-risk food must stay at or below this temperature at all times.
Minimum internal core temperature required to destroy Listeria and Salmonella.
The 24-hour rule for ready-to-eat high-risk foods
Once opened or prepared, ready-to-eat refrigerated foods — sliced deli meats, for example — should generally be discarded within 24 hours. Aged residents have lowered stomach acid and weaker immune responses, which materially raises the risk profile of foodborne illness compared to the general population. A documented HACCP system with delivery temperature, storage, cooking, and rapid-cooling logs is the evidence base auditors expect to see behind this.
Blender & mincer hygiene — the high-risk equipment auditors check first
Texture-modified meals carry an outsized cross-contamination risk. Stick blenders and mincers trap bacteria easily if not fully disassembled, cleaned, and sanitised between every use. The same 24-hour discard rule applies to leftover texture-modified food as it does to other ready-to-eat high-risk items.
Source: Standard 3.3.1, Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code; FSANZ food safety guidance for vulnerable populations.
What's already running.
What we're building next.
Most of the engine comes from EthicalHub's existing food safety platform. The aged-care-specific layer is what's in active development.
Already built & proven
- Kitchen HACCP & prerequisite program (PRP) tracking
- Supplier certification vault with expiry monitoring
- Delivery & fridge temperature logging
- Corrective action workflows with full audit trail
- Consultant / quality manager review portal
- One-click audit pack generation
In active development
- Resident-level dietary & nutrition risk records
- Texture modification & fluid thickening (IDDSI) logging
- Standard 6 outcomes & actions as structured self-assessment
- Weight & malnutrition risk trend flags
- Resident-level evidence bundles in the audit pack
- Aged-care-specific reporting for consultants & auditors
Why not just use FlowLogic or Statura?
Fair question. They're real, capable platforms. We're not trying to replace them — we're solving a different problem.
| What you need | Full GRC suites (FlowLogic, Statura, Complynce) |
EthicalHub Standard 6 Module |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Whole-of-organisation — compliance, clinical, workforce, billing, rostering, 25–35 modules | Food & nutrition only — Standard 6, kitchen HACCP, resident dietary risk |
| Implementation | Months — onboarding spans every department | Weeks — kitchen and dietary teams only |
| Pricing model | Per-bed, tiered by module count — from roughly $9/bed/month upward as you add modules | Talk to us — no published pricing during pilot |
| Best fit if you... | Want to consolidate your entire compliance & care stack onto one platform | Just need Standard 6 done properly, without a system overhaul |
| Built on | Purpose-built aged care GRC architecture | A proven food safety engine, already running in childcare centres |
If you already run a full GRC suite, our module is built to sit alongside it as the food & nutrition layer — not replace it. If you're managing Standard 6 in spreadsheets and don't want a 12-month platform migration, that's exactly the gap we're building for.
Built specifically
for Standard 6.
Not a generic GRC suite. A focused food & nutrition compliance layer for aged care kitchens and residents.
Resident Dietary & Risk Records
Texture modification level, fluid thickening, swallowing risk, and dietary requirements tracked per resident.
Weight & Nutrition Trend Monitoring
Trend-based flags surface early — before a decline becomes a missed deterioration signal.
Standard 6 Self-Assessment
The 33 outcomes and supporting actions, structured as a working dashboard — not a static PDF.
Kitchen HACCP, Shared Engine
The same proven kitchen food safety engine that runs EthicalHub's childcare platform, applied to your kitchen.
Quality Manager & Consultant Portal
Remote review and sign-off across your kitchen and resident records, from one login.
Resident-Level Audit Evidence
ACQSC sampling looks at individual resident files. Your audit pack will too.
Where we draw the line.
This module tracks food & nutrition compliance — not clinical care. Weight and malnutrition risk flags are designed as an early-warning signal to your care team, not a substitute for clinical judgement. Every aspect of resident risk tracking is being shaped with input from dietitians and aged care quality managers before release.
Safety protocols don't override
a resident's right to choose.
Standard 6 isn't only a clinical safety standard — it's built on a human-rights approach to dining. Two principles sit at the centre of that balance.
Dignity of Risk
A resident's independence and right to make their own choices is protected — even when that choice carries risk. The facility's role is to help them understand the risk, not to override their decision.
- Applies to food choices just as it applies to mobility, lifestyle, and other personal decisions
- Residents can choose to accept risk — providers must respect that decision once it's informed
- Where decision-making capacity is impaired, supported decision-making involving family and carers applies instead
EDAR Protocol
Eating and Drinking with Acknowledged Risk applies when a resident with dysphagia chooses regular food against medical or speech pathology advice. The facility cannot simply force compliance — it must follow a documented process instead.
- Document that the resident understands the specific risk — choking or aspiration
- Assess the resident's decision-making capacity for that choice
- Support the choice while managing the environment to make it as safe as reasonably possible
"Choosing to eat and drink things that have a health risk is known as eating and drinking with acknowledged risk." — Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission
Become a design partner.
We're working closely with a small number of providers to get this right before wider release.
A short conversation
Tell us about your facility, your current Standard 6 process, and where the gaps are. No sales pitch.
Early access build
You get hands-on access as features ship, with direct input into what gets built next.
Shape the standard
Your facility's real workflow informs the module every other aged care provider eventually uses.
From conversation to pilot, roughly six weeks.
This is the build sequence we're working through with design partners now — not a fixed promise, but a realistic shape of how it goes.
Discovery conversation
We learn your current Standard 6 process, where the manual gaps are, and whether there's a real fit. In parallel, we scope the resident dietary profile and sector setup for your facility.
Resident & dietary build
Resident dietary and nutrition risk tracking goes in, alongside the aged-care-specific HACCP prerequisite programs — texture modification and fluid thickening protocols.
Standard 6 dashboard & audit pack
The four-outcome self-assessment dashboard goes live for your facility, alongside a resident-level evidence bundle added to the audit pack export.
Real-world pilot
We run the module against a real internal review or consultant audit at your facility — the actual test of whether this holds up.
Before you book a conversation.
The questions design partners ask us most.
Help us build the Standard 6 module right.
No pricing, no commitment — just a conversation about whether this is worth building together.
hello@ethicalhub.co · No pricing yet, just a conversation