Current risk assessment tools

Thanks Bernie. 😊The plan is that we stop using that risk assessment tool after we’ve rolled out the ‘risk enablement’ process.

Sounds good to me!Thank you for your great work!Bernadette MelderThe Jeder Institute
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This is the way forward- simple, practical and friendly

HI these look good. the question I have is there a form that we need to fill out to have on echidna so that the auditors are able to see it. or did I not read them fully.

Brett

Hi Brett, Once the 'implementation plan/report' is completed, it will be uploaded to Echidna. The document will serve many purposes: it will serve as a replacement for the Cossie report, home visit safety checklist and risk assessment tool.

Thanks Aleks for all the work on this.

Few clarifying questions:

In stage three- why would the Sydney NDIS teams only use the documents. Stage 2 is for the bored (or Board) to endorse/approve the documents- after documents are endorsed/approved I would assume everyone would use them. Have the documents been trialled/used at this point in time? It would make sense to me to reverse this- get feedback, trial them, provide outcomes of the feed back/refine if needed, put up another proposal and then seek approval/endorsement by bored/board.

Also, are these documents for the whole of Jeder or just the NDIS team- do we expect CoBU to complete them as well? If so, in what context would they use them?

In terms of references/resources- can you provide the references for these so I can have a look at these in more detail?

Risk Policy:

One of the frameworks is from the UK- is this relevant to Australian Standards for Risk Management?

Page 6 & 7 of the Draft Risk Policy- are all these documents and forms available and relevant for Jeder? for example first aid policy and first aid kit checklist- are these ours?

The Policy does not reflect any risk framework for organisational risks? I may have missed this but it seems its more geared for people with a disability/NDIS?

Implementation Plan-

There is some double up on this form- i.e. budget areas- why are there two areas for the budget?

How does this link to the NDIS practice Standards?

Given the timeframe for the poll, I would like to see another discussion about this at the Risk Jedi- I did see in the Feb minutes that you were taking it to the Syd NDIS meeting for trial. I am going to presume that from that meeting it was decided to put the proposal on Loomio- it makes sense to me that it should have gone back to the Risk Jedi for discussion (I may have missed something here though).

Based on this- I am voting to block as I think there is still a bit more conversation that could benefit the whole framework- I do like the way its heading though.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your feedback, the stage 2&3 steps are Suggested out ou courteousy for members and the bored. It is my understanding that we should collaborate even before introducing ‘trials’. Surely we shouldn’t be implementing trials without the Bored’s blessings? Maybe we can?

as for the context and depth for the use of this approach: Yes eventually, it will be the way we approach risk across the whole organisation. This step is the beginning of a continuous improvement process- it’s an improvement to what we practice atm. (Policy, procedure etc) it will take time to become great. Hopefully we (risk jedi, members, bored) can all Come together over the next 12 moths with a common goal to improve.

references are listed at the bottom of the policy document. I’ll check them again.

The risk Jedi has been operating. Time constraints Have made it difficult to cover and ALL risk, whs, priorities as needed- a hell of a lot of work to be done.

I’m not sure how to respond to the ‘Block’ decision now. What next?

Cheers

Aleks

I have read through your excellent work Alek and it is very good, thanks again!!

Thanks Aleks, I guess it's watch this space and I'll meet you for a Risk Jedi Zoom on April 8th

It seems that @Jason Emmins and @Aleks Jovanovic may need to do a bit more work together to address the clarifying questions. Not my strength and with Jason's pedantic hat on, I'm sure you guys will get it right - driving the change and ensuring compliance. Thanks for all the good work. I'm keen to give it a go. What is important to me for the NDIS members is that we have one form that we can build on over time, which covers quality of life, what is going well and not, risks to people, how to minimise the risks, budgets, goals and action plans. The document can then be shared with NDIS and relevant others.