NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-10.5 Risk management: supports delivered consistently with the risk system
Clause and reference core-10.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Supports and services are actually delivered in line with the risk management system, so the controls written in it are followed in practice.
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
- Spot check or supervision records verifying risk controls on shift
- Participant files showing risk plan actions carried out
- Internal audit findings on risk controls
What assessors commonly find
- Risk controls on paper not followed by casual or agency workers
- Participant risk plans not available to workers on shift
What evidence do I need?
For core-10.5 Risk management: supports delivered consistently with the risk system, the evidence to bring is: Spot check or supervision records verifying risk controls on shift. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-10.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me spot check or supervision records verifying risk controls on shift, 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