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Allied Health NDIS Audit Checklist: worksheet

Conduct during an emergency

Psychology Board Code of conduct for psychologists. Edition held: Code of conduct for psychologists, effective 1 December 2025 (advance copy published November 2024; PDF dated 13 November 2025); checked current on 6 October 2026 (our build record of the held copy: current on the Psychology Board site as read 6 October 2026).

Standards library: https://compliance.theartofservice.com/frameworks/psychology-board-of-australia-code-of-conduct-for-psychologists-2025. Page: https://allied-health-ndis-audit-checklist.theartofservice.com/rules/psychology-code-of-conduct/1-4-conduct-during-an-emergency/

RefRequirement (our statement of the clause)Evidence an auditor or the regulator asks forCommon gap to checkHeld (yes, partly, no, not applicable)Where it is keptOwnerLast reviewedNext review
1.4A psychologist who steps in during an emergency weighs more than the help being given: their own safety, their skills, what other options are available and the effect on their other clients, and they keep helping until assistance is objectively no longer needed.
Source: https://www.psychologyboard.gov.au/Standards-and-Guidelines/Professional-practice-standards/Code-of-conduct
Contemporaneous note of the emergency, the help given and the point at which other services took over; Practice emergency procedure covering staff safety, escalation contacts and cover for other booked clientsNo record of an emergency intervention; Assistance ended before other help arrived, with no reason recorded☐ yes
☐ partly
☐ no
☐ n/a

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.