NDIS Practice Standards
m6-5.1 Incident management (verification): proportionate incident system meeting the Rules
Clause and reference m6-5.1, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider maintains an incident management system that is proportionate to its supports and size and meets the NDIS (Incident Management and Reportable Incidents) Rules 2018, including notifying reportable incidents to the NDIS Commission.
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
- Incident management procedure referring to the Incident Management and Reportable Incidents Rules
- Incident register with investigation and action records
- Reportable incident notifications made to the NDIS Commission
What assessors commonly find
- Procedure omits reportable incident timeframes
- Incidents recorded in case notes but not in an incident register
What evidence do I need?
For m6-5.1 Incident management (verification): proportionate incident system meeting the Rules, the evidence to bring is: Incident management procedure referring to the Incident Management and Reportable Incidents Rules. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-5.1. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me incident management procedure referring to the Incident Management and Reportable Incidents Rules, 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