What must I have in place for emergency and disaster planning?
A plan for continuity of critical supports before, during and after an emergency, built with participant consultation and covering preparation, changes, adaptation and recovery, with the governing body's response and oversight set out. A dated drill record within the last six months, with its actions closed, is what an assessor looks for.
Answered from the held text of NDIS Practice Standards core-16a.1. The clause behind it is cited below, and the requirement page carries the evidence an assessor asks for.
What the clause behind this answer says
core-16a.1 Emergency and disaster: continuity of critical supports before, during and after
Measures are in place so supports that are critical to each participant's safety, health and wellbeing continue before, during and after an emergency or disaster.
Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
core-16a.2 Emergency and disaster: planning covers preparation, changes, adaptation and communication
The emergency measures plan for each of: preparing for and responding to the emergency or disaster; changing participant supports; adapting and responding quickly to changes in supports and other interruptions; and communicating changes to workers, participants and their support networks.
Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
core-16a.3 Emergency and disaster: governing body develops plans with participant consultation
The governing body develops emergency and disaster management plans, consults participants and their support networks about them, and puts them in place.
Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
What evidence answers it
- Register of participants and the supports critical to their safety, health and wellbeing
- Individual emergency plans for participants with critical supports
- Records from a past emergency or exercise showing critical supports maintained
What assessors commonly find
- No list of which participants rely on critical supports
- Individual emergency plans not prepared with participants
The reviewer opens with
Show me register of participants and the supports critical to their safety, health and wellbeing, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
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Where to go next
- core-16a.1 Emergency and disaster: continuity of critical supports before, during and after
- core-16a.2 Emergency and disaster: planning covers preparation, changes, adaptation and communication
- core-16a.3 Emergency and disaster: governing body develops plans with participant consultation
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