Cold Chain Resources

Cold Chain Accreditation

Cold Chain Accreditation is a Ministry of Health initiative for practices/providers to demonstrate effective management of vaccine stocks in the cold chain, as required by existing national standards. Please click here for more information.

Annual Cold Chain Management Guide

The Immunisation Advisory Centre has produced this booklet as a clinic based quality tool to support you in maintaining high cold chain standards.

The guide enables you to:

• Have instant access to temperature-recording charts at the refrigerator site
• Use the trouble shooting tips for cold chain problems
• Have a self audit tool to check your clinic is on target for excellence
• Keep track of your clinic’s cold chain history
• Use as an orientation guide for new staff

You can either download a copy of the guide here (NOTE: file is 1MB)

OR

Download additional Temperature Recording Charts here

National Standards Cold Chain Storage & Distribution (May 2002).pdf

Vaccine Register

For use in General Practices to aid in Cold Chain vaccine management. Practices may wish to use this or to develop there own register.
Click on the below links to download the sample vaccine register and ledger:

• Sample Vaccine Register
• Sample Vaccine Ledger

If Practices have good examples of Vaccine Registers which they would like to share, please email IMAC

For Cold Chain enquries contact:

Karen Green ph: 0272 324 567 or email to  IMAC