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NDIS (Practice Standards: Worker Screening) Rules 2018: the rules AI agent steps rest on
- Edition
- F2018L00887, Compilation No. 4 (F2021C00788), in force from 31 July 2021
- Checked current
- 2026-09-30
- Official source
- https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2018L00887/latest/text
| Rule | Our statement | Steps that cite it |
|---|---|---|
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 11 (risk assessed roles) | 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. | KC-03 S1 Is the role a risk assessed role? |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 13(a) (workers only with a clearance) | Subject to the exceptions in Division 4, a registered provider supporting a person with disability in a participating jurisdiction allows a worker to engage in a risk assessed role only if the worker has a current clearance. A worker subject to an interim bar, suspension or exclusion is removed from the role, since the worker then has no operative clearance. | KC-03 S2 Can the worker keep working? |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 13(b) (personnel from a personnel provider) | An individual supplied by a personnel provider (agency or labour hire) may engage in a risk assessed role only if the registered provider has told the personnel provider which risk assessed roles the individual will fill, has an appropriate contract with the personnel provider for that individual (s 5A obligations), and has taken reasonable steps to satisfy itself that the individual has a clearance. | KC-03 S2 Can the worker keep working?; KC-03 S7 Tell the personnel provider |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 14 (exceptions) | A person without a clearance may fill a risk assessed role only under an exception: (a) the person is in the process of obtaining a clearance, is appropriately supervised by a cleared person, the provider is implementing its s 12 risk management plan, and the law of the jurisdiction allows work while an application is pending; (b) the provider is complying with the Part 4 transitional arrangements and the person has no interim bar, exclusion, suspension or cancelled clearance; or (c) the person is a secondary school student on formal work experience directly supervised by a cleared worker (s 14(1)); individual providers have the equivalent exceptions (s 14(2)). Under s 14A the pending-application exception does not apply where the jurisdiction's law forbids working while an application is undecided and the person has no acceptable check for that jurisdiction. | KC-03 S2 Can the worker keep working? |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 17 (list of risk assessed roles) | The provider keeps a written list of every risk assessed role filled with it, whether by a worker, personnel or an individual provider, stating for each the title or identifier, which limb of the definition applies, a description, the date it was assessed as a risk assessed role and the name and title of the assessor. The list is updated within 20 business days when a new risk assessed role is identified or an existing role is reclassified. | KC-03 S1 Is the role a risk assessed role? |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 18(1) to (3) (list of workers) | The provider keeps an up-to-date written list of every worker in a risk assessed role with: full name, date of birth and address; the risk assessed roles they fill; for a worker allowed to work without a clearance, the exception relied on, its start and end dates and the supervisor's name; and for a worker who needs a clearance, the application number, the clearance number, the outcome and expiry, and whether any decision to suspend or revoke, or other decision stopping the provider from allowing the work, applies and its nature. | KC-03 S6 Keep the records |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 18(4) and (5) (records of bars and action taken) | The provider keeps a copy of every record about an interim bar, suspension or exclusion affecting a worker and of the action it took in response, and every record about an allegation of misconduct against a worker who holds a clearance and the action taken, including any investigation. | KC-03 S6 Keep the records |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules s 19 (records about personnel) | For personnel, the provider keeps a copy of each appropriate contract, records of administering and enforcing it, information the personnel provider gives about individuals under the contract, records of the reasonable steps it took to satisfy itself each individual has a clearance, and records of any misconduct allegation against cleared personnel. | KC-03 S7 Tell the personnel provider |
| NDIS Worker Screening Rules ss 20 and 21 (seven years) | The worker list is kept in a form that lets an auditor tell which workers were in risk assessed roles on any given day in the previous seven years (s 20), and every record under Part 3 is kept for seven years from the date it is made (s 21). A former registered provider must keep records it was required to keep for three years after ceasing to be registered (NDIS Act s 73R). | KC-03 S6 Keep the records |