HSU Patient Transport Officers have lifted non-safety related bans from TODAY after 84% of the membership previously voted in favour of engaging with IRC processes to negotiate a new award.

These bans were actioned and firmly maintained by the membership to put pressure on HealthShare to agree to the log of claims. To this date, HealthShare still denies the significance of adequate training, fatigue management, and fair rostering to its employees.

While award-based industrial actions may have paused, this does not mean that HSU PTOs are backing down from the fight.

HSU PTOs are gearing up for the next award discussion on Wednesday next week. Every PTO has had enough of working under an unsafe and substandard award. Their continuing fight will not just improve their conditions at work but also safeguards the delivery of a safe and reliable transport service to the community that has their backs.

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These are the safety related bans still in place:

• No single PTO attending home addresses.
• No single PTO after 18:00 or before 06:00. PTOs are reminded not to operate a stretcher solo.
• No multiloading patients where there is any risk of leaving a patient alone in the vehicle.
• Taking a 20-minute fatigue break after working for a maximum of two hours, starting from the first-day shift on Monday, 8 July 2024, until a reasonable, safe, and fair provision for fatigue management is included in our award.
• Declining to use any vehicle in their duties that does not contain a mobile workplace first aid kit. This kit must be supplied by a recognised vendor, such as St John Ambulance.