NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-15.7 Human resources: workers with emergency response capabilities identified
Clause and reference core-15.7, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Workers whose capabilities can help in responding to an emergency or disaster, such as contingency planning or infection prevention and control, are identified.
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
- Skills register flagging emergency, contingency planning and infection control capabilities
- Emergency plan naming identified workers and their roles
- Training records for designated infection control leads
What assessors commonly find
- No list of who can lead an outbreak response
- Emergency roles assigned to people who have left
What evidence do I need?
For core-15.7 Human resources: workers with emergency response capabilities identified, the evidence to bring is: Skills register flagging emergency, contingency planning and infection control capabilities. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-15.7. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me skills register flagging emergency, contingency planning and infection control capabilities, 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