NDIS Practice Standards
Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living
m5a-4.6 SIL safeguarding: worker responsibilities for home risks and collaboration
Clause and reference m5a-4.6, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Policies and procedures set out relevant workers' responsibilities for identifying, assessing and responding to risks such as bullying and conflict in the home, and require them to collaborate with relevant providers and specialists to manage risks consistently and person-centredly for the participant and co-residents.
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
- Procedure defining worker roles in home risk identification and response
- Records of case conferences with behaviour support practitioners, clinicians or other providers
- Home risk assessments updated after conflict incidents
What assessors commonly find
- Behaviour support practitioner not consulted after repeated conflict
- Risk responses depend on which worker is on shift
What evidence do I need?
For m5a-4.6 SIL safeguarding: worker responsibilities for home risks and collaboration, the evidence to bring is: Procedure defining worker roles in home risk identification and response. It sits under Module 5A: Assistance with supported independent living and our reference for it is m5a-4.6. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me procedure defining worker roles in home risk identification and response, 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