sec.45Meaning of NDIS disability work and risk-assessed NDIS work

sec.45 Meaning of NDIS disability work and risk-assessed NDIS work

NDIS disability work is work that includes the delivery of NDIS supports or services to a person with disability. Risk-assessed NDIS work is NDIS disability work carried out in a role for which the normal duties— include the direct delivery of specified NDIS supports or services to a person with disability; or are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability. For subsection (2) (b) , the normal duties of a person’s role are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability if the duties include— physically touching a person with disability; or building a rapport with a person with disability as an integral and ordinary part of the performance of the duties; or duties that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are defined to be, or otherwise described as, duties that require more than incidental contact with a person with disability. In this section— contact includes— physical contact; and face-to-face contact; and oral, written and electronic communication. rapport means a relationship or understanding that is more than merely polite and functional. specified NDIS supports or services means NDIS supports or services that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are— specified supports or specified services; or identified as supports or services that, if delivered directly to a person with disability, must be delivered by a person who holds an NDIS clearance or interstate NDIS clearance. s 45 prev s 45 om 2014 No. 12 s 56 pres s 45 ins 2010 No. 5 s 87 sub 2020 No. 39 s 11 (sec.45-ssec.1) NDIS disability work is work that includes the delivery of NDIS supports or services to a person with disability. (sec.45-ssec.2) Risk-assessed NDIS work is NDIS disability work carried out in a role for which the normal duties— include the direct delivery of specified NDIS supports or services to a person with disability; or are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability. (sec.45-ssec.3) For subsection (2) (b) , the normal duties of a person’s role are likely to require more than incidental contact with a person with disability if the duties include— physically touching a person with disability; or building a rapport with a person with disability as an integral and ordinary part of the performance of the duties; or duties that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are defined to be, or otherwise described as, duties that require more than incidental contact with a person with disability. (sec.45-ssec.4) In this section— contact includes— physical contact; and face-to-face contact; and oral, written and electronic communication. rapport means a relationship or understanding that is more than merely polite and functional. specified NDIS supports or services means NDIS supports or services that, under the NDIS (Worker Screening) Practice Standards , are— specified supports or specified services; or identified as supports or services that, if delivered directly to a person with disability, must be delivered by a person who holds an NDIS clearance or interstate NDIS clearance.