NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: support provision environment
core-24.2 Safe environment: working with participants to make settings safe
Clause and reference core-24.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider works with each participant and others in the settings where supports are delivered, including the participant's home, to make the support delivery environment safe.
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
- Home visit safety assessments completed with the participant
- Site hazard inspections for centre-based settings
- Actions taken on identified hazards and follow-up records
What assessors commonly find
- Home risk assessment done without the participant
- Identified hazards not followed up
What evidence do I need?
For core-24.2 Safe environment: working with participants to make settings safe, the evidence to bring is: Home visit safety assessments completed with the participant; Site hazard inspections for centre-based settings. It sits under Core module: support provision environment and our reference for it is core-24.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me home visit safety assessments completed with the participant, 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