NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: governance and operational management
core-16a.9 Emergency and disaster: each worker trained to implement the plans
Clause and reference core-16a.9, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each worker is trained in implementing the emergency and disaster management plans.
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
- Training records on the emergency and disaster management plans for every worker
- Drill participation records
- Induction content covering the plans
What assessors commonly find
- Casual and agency workers not trained in the plans
- Training records show only fire safety, not the plans
What evidence do I need?
For core-16a.9 Emergency and disaster: each worker trained to implement the plans, the evidence to bring is: Training records on the emergency and disaster management plans for every worker. It sits under Core module: governance and operational management and our reference for it is core-16a.9. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me training records on the emergency and disaster management plans for every worker, 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