NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.4 Emergency and disaster: plans guide the governing body's response and oversight
Clause and reference core-16a.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The emergency plans explain and guide how the governing body will respond to an emergency or disaster and oversee the response.
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
- Emergency governance section naming decision-makers, escalation and reporting lines
- Emergency meeting records or incident command logs from an event or exercise
- Reporting templates to the governing body during an emergency
What assessors commonly find
- Plans silent on who decides during an emergency
- Governing body not informed during a past event
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.4 Emergency and disaster: plans guide the governing body's response, the evidence to bring is: Emergency governance section naming decision-makers, escalation and reporting lines. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me emergency governance section naming decision-makers, escalation and reporting lines, 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