NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-24.10 Safe environment: PPE training for direct support workers
Clause and reference core-24.10, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Every worker who provides supports directly to participants is trained, with refresher training, in the use of personal protective equipment.
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
- PPE donning and doffing training records
- Competency observations for PPE use
- Refresher schedule for PPE training
What assessors commonly find
- PPE training given only during an outbreak and never refreshed
- No competency check on correct PPE use
What evidence do I need?
For core-24.10 Safe environment: PPE training for direct support workers, the evidence to bring is: PPE donning and doffing training records; Competency observations for PPE use. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-24.10. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me pPE donning and doffing training records, 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