NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-24.11 Safe environment: PPE available to workers and participants who need it
Clause and reference core-24.11, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Personal protective equipment is available to each worker and each participant who requires it, in every setting where supports are delivered, so infection prevention measures are never limited by missing stock.
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 stock register and reorder records
- Records of PPE supplied to participants
- Stock checks in vehicles and homes
What assessors commonly find
- Workers buying their own PPE
- No PPE stocked for participants who need it
What evidence do I need?
For core-24.11 Safe environment: PPE available to workers and participants who need, the evidence to bring is: PPE stock register and reorder records; Records of PPE supplied to participants. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-24.11. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me pPE stock register and reorder 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