What evidence does an auditor or the regulator ask for under Worker Screening Rules s 11?

Role assessment worksheet for every position (including volunteers, students and agency staff) stating whether and why it is a risk assessed role; Organisation chart identifying key personnel roles (board, CEO, executives, managers); Commissioner's current list of specified supports and services, with the date it was checked

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Requirement

Assess every role and identify the risk assessed roles

NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 11, stated plainly and cited to the edition held, with the evidence an auditor or the regulator asks for, the common gaps, and a free worksheet to fill in.

Clause

Worker Screening Rules s 11

Regulator

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Edition held

NDIS (Practice Standards - Worker Screening) Rules 2018, Compilation No. 4 (F2021C00788), in force 31 July 2021

Checked current

6 October 2026, Federal Register: latest version on 6 October 2026

Who it applies to

Registered NDIS providers that have workers in risk assessed roles, and individual registered providers for their own clearance.

Every clause in the standards library

NDIS Worker Screening Rules on the standards library

s 11Assess every role and identify the risk assessed rolessource

Requirement, our statement of the clause

The registered provider assesses every role that its workers and any personnel will undertake in providing supports or services to people with disability, and identifies each role that is a risk assessed role (key personnel, direct delivery of specified supports or services, or more than incidental contact). A provider who is an individual is itself a worker.

Evidence that typically shows this

Role assessment worksheet for every position (including volunteers, students and agency staff) stating whether and why it is a risk assessed role
Organisation chart identifying key personnel roles (board, CEO, executives, managers)
Commissioner's current list of specified supports and services, with the date it was checked

Common gap to check

Back-office or IT roles with unsupervised access to participants never assessed
Board members and managers not treated as risk assessed roles
Agency, contractor and volunteer roles left out of the assessment

Worksheet: what your practice holds, and where

Ref	Held (yes, partly, no, not applicable)	Where it is kept	Owner	Last reviewed	Next review
s 11

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Completing this worksheet records what your practice holds and where. It does not make a practice compliant or ready for audit, and it is not legal advice.

Related requirements

NDIS Worker Screening Rules

s 18(1) to (3), s 18(4) and (5)Records of workers in risk assessed roles
s 12(1) and (2)Written risk management plan for roles held by people without a clearance yet
s 13(a), s 13(b), s 13(c)Who may work in a risk assessed role
s 12(3) and (4)Review the plan after a reportable incident or on the Commissioner's requirement, and implement it
s 14 and s 14AUse the exceptions only on their conditions, and never where no card, no start applies
s 15Confirm a complete application before treating a person as in the process of obtaining a clearance
s 17Written list of risk assessed roles, updated within 20 business days
s 19Keep records about personnel supplied by personnel providers
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The same topic in other instruments (workers)

NDIS Practice Standards Core 15.1 to Core 15.10Core module: Human resources
NDIS Practice Standards Module 6 6.1 to Module 6 6.5Module 6: Human resource management
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National Law s 142Employers notify notifiable conduct of registered practitioners they engage

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