NDIS Practice Standards
m6-6.4 Human resource management (verification): PPE training for direct support workers
Clause and reference m6-6.4, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Each worker who gives supports directly to participants is trained, with refresher training, in using personal protective equipment, including putting it on and taking it off safely.
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
- PPE training records for direct support workers, including donning and doffing
- Refresher training dates
- Competency checks or observation records on PPE use
What assessors commonly find
- Direct support workers with no PPE training on file
- Training given once and never refreshed
What evidence do I need?
For m6-6.4 Human resource management (verification): PPE training for direct support workers, the evidence to bring is: PPE training records for direct support workers, including donning and doffing; Refresher training dates. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-6.4. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me pPE training records for direct support workers, including donning and doffing, 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