NDIS Practice Standards
m6-3.1 Risk management (verification): documented WHS risk management system
Clause and reference m6-3.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider has a documented risk management system that effectively manages work health and safety risks and is proportionate to its size and scale and the scope and complexity of its supports.
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
- Documented risk management procedure covering work health and safety
- Risk register with ratings, controls and review dates
- Hazard or WHS incident reports and the actions taken
What assessors commonly find
- Risk register not reviewed since registration
- Procedure copied from a template that does not match the services
What evidence do I need?
For m6-3.1 Risk management (verification): documented WHS risk management system, the evidence to bring is: Documented risk management procedure covering work health and safety; Risk register with ratings, controls and review dates. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-3.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me documented risk management procedure covering work health and safety, 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