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Module 6: Verification

m6-3.2 Risk management (verification): appropriate insurance in place

Clause and reference m6-3.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators

The requirement

The provider holds appropriate insurance, including professional indemnity, public liability and accident insurance, at levels that match the supports it is registered to deliver and kept current.

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

  • Current certificates of currency for professional indemnity, public liability and accident or workers compensation insurance
  • Insurance renewal register
  • Policy schedules showing cover matches the registration groups

What assessors commonly find

  • A certificate of currency expired at audit
  • Professional indemnity missing for a sole practitioner

What evidence do I need?

For m6-3.2 Risk management (verification): appropriate insurance in place, the evidence to bring is: Current certificates of currency for professional indemnity, public liability and accident or workers compensation insurance; Insurance renewal register. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-3.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.

Answer the reviewer first

Show me current certificates of currency for professional indemnity, public liability and accident or workers compensation insurance, 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

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