NDIS Practice Standards
m6-3.3 Risk management (verification): emergency and disaster planning included
Clause and reference m6-3.3, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider's risk management system includes planning for emergencies and disasters, covering how participants will be kept safe and critical supports continued if an emergency or disaster disrupts services.
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
- Emergency and disaster management plan
- Records of plan testing or review
- Participant and worker communication plan for emergencies
What assessors commonly find
- No emergency plan for supports delivered in participants' homes
- Plan never reviewed or tested
What evidence do I need?
For m6-3.3 Risk management (verification): emergency and disaster planning included, the evidence to bring is: Emergency and disaster management plan; Records of plan testing or review. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-3.3. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me emergency and disaster management plan, 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