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Restrictive practice (NDIS)

A restrictive practice is any action that restricts the rights or freedom of movement of a person with disability. The NDIS Commission regulates five categories — chemical, mechanical, physical, environmental, and seclusion — and requires written authorisation, a behaviour support plan, and logging of every use.

Implementing providers must record each use of a regulated restrictive practice, link it to an authorised behaviour support plan, and report uses to the NDIS Commission. The register cannot be deleted or retrospectively altered.

HealthOS implements restrictive practice logging as insert-only with no delete or update endpoints — the audit trail regulators expect, built into the data layer.

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