Risk assessments are an everyday part of running an NDIS service provider business. Client risk assessments are a fundamental step in creating a client’s support plan and should be regularly updated.  Risk assessments of support workers, meanwhile, are “an evaluation of whether a person poses an unacceptable risk of harm to people with disability based on their criminal history and/or other relevant information.” Until recently, NDIS service providers could run their own risk assessments for support workers. However, this has now been completely phased out in favour of Worker Screening Checks done by the Worker Screening Unit. The biggest difference, of course, is that you are no longer doing the risk assessment. The responsibility, workload and decision-making are taken out of your hands. As a result, the assessment should be more objective and support workers’ privacy will be respected, with you having limited access to information about their background.  Another major point to note is that the support worker is only assessed for one specific role. It is important to remember that having clearance for this role does not mean they have been risk assessed for other work.