NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.5 Emergency and disaster: plans actively tested and adjusted
Clause and reference core-16a.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The governing body has mechanisms to actively test the plans and to adjust them for a particular kind of emergency or disaster.
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
- Exercise or drill schedule covering different emergency types
- Exercise reports with lessons learned
- Version history showing plan changes after testing
What assessors commonly find
- Plans never tested
- Only fire drills run, no tests for outbreaks, floods or heatwaves
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.5 Emergency and disaster: plans actively tested and adjusted, the evidence to bring is: Exercise or drill schedule covering different emergency types; Exercise reports with lessons learned. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me exercise or drill schedule covering different emergency types, 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