National Quality and Safety Group (NQS) provides advice, mentoring and training to NDIS providers and community business organisations to review and improve quality and safety management systems. NQS offers professional recognition programs and assistance with audit preparation.

National Quality and Safety Group recognises that NDIS providers and community organisations are faced with complex operational issues every day together with demanding and challenging quality and compliance requirements. NQS supports the managers who are responsible for quality and safety to review and improve their Quality and Safety Management Systems focusing on efficiency and effectiveness.

Our Story

National Quality and Safety Group Co-founder and Group Director Peter Burton has worked in the community and disability sector for over 30 years. He was a Quality Auditor for NDIS Practice Standards and the first accredited assessor for disability standards in Australia in 2001. Peter worked from grassroots to executive level assisting more than 300 not-for-profit organisations in Quality and Safety Compliance.

Peter speaks the ‘Quality’ language and is focused on ensuring that management system decisions are always focused on customers and participants. He understands that excellence is required in every process to ensure that the customer’s or participant’s needs are fully met. Peter is very aware that every NDIS provider/community business organisation is unique. He is an expert in interpreting certification requirements and applying them to the actual business operation.