NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.8 Emergency and disaster: plans communicated to workers, participants and networks
Clause and reference core-16a.8, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The governing body communicates the plans to workers, participants and their support networks.
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
- Distribution records or acknowledgements for workers
- Participant-friendly summaries of the plans and records of who received them
- Newsletters or meetings where plans were explained to support networks
What assessors commonly find
- Workers unaware the plan exists
- Participants given no accessible version of the plan
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.8 Emergency and disaster: plans communicated to workers, participants and networks, the evidence to bring is: Distribution records or acknowledgements for workers. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.8. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me distribution records or acknowledgements for workers, 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