NDIS Practice Standards
m6-6.5 Human resource management (verification): PPE available to workers and participants
Clause and reference m6-6.5, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
Personal protective equipment is available to every worker and every participant who needs it, including when supports are delivered in participants' homes or in the community.
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 stock register and reorder records
- Records of PPE issued to workers and participants
- Procedure for accessing PPE during home visits
What assessors commonly find
- No PPE stock kept by a mobile provider
- Participants who need PPE not supplied
What evidence do I need?
For m6-6.5 Human resource management (verification): PPE available to workers and participants, the evidence to bring is: PPE stock register and reorder records; Records of PPE issued to workers and participants. It sits under Module 6: Verification and our reference for it is m6-6.5. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me pPE stock register and reorder records, 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