NDIS Practice Standards
m6-3.4 Risk management (verification): regular risk assessments of reliance on services
Clause and reference m6-3.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Risk assessments are done regularly and consider how far participants rely on the provider's services for daily living and how disruption of those services would affect their health and safety.
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
- Participant risk assessments rating reliance on the service and the impact of disruption
- List of participants prioritised for continuity if services stop
- Risk assessment review dates in participant files
What assessors commonly find
- Risk assessments do not address disruption of services
- Assessments done once and never repeated
What evidence do I need?
For m6-3.4 Risk management (verification): regular risk assessments of reliance on services, the evidence to bring is: Participant risk assessments rating reliance on the service and the impact of disruption. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-3.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me participant risk assessments rating reliance on the service and the impact of disruption, 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