NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-10.1 Risk management: organisational and participant risks identified and treated
Clause and reference core-10.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Risks to the organisation, including risks to participants, financial and work health and safety risks, and risks from providing supports, are identified, analysed, prioritised and treated.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Risk register rating likelihood and consequence with treatments and owners
- Participant risk assessments linked to the organisational register
- Work health and safety hazard register
What assessors commonly find
- Register lists risks but no treatments or owners
- Participant-level risks not considered at organisational level
What evidence do I need?
For core-10.1 Risk management: organisational and participant risks identified and treated, the evidence to bring is: Risk register rating likelihood and consequence with treatments and owners. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-10.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me risk register rating likelihood and consequence with treatments and owners, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.
Read your own evidence against this clause
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading