Victorian Ambulance Union

05/06/2026

Important membership update for Triage Practitioners. Please refer to the latest VAU bulletin.

05/06/2026

CPD and online Webinars

VAU members have access to the best paramedic CPD content in Australasia. The latest upcoming interactive webinar will be held on Tuesday 30 June, 1800-1900. It is open to all Paramedic, NEPT, TZV and ACO VAU members.

Presented by an expert in emergency law, Dr Michael Eburn, this webinar explores the authorisation landscape and the structures that underpin how paramedics are permitted to carry and administer scheduled drugs in Australia.

But you MUST be a VAU member to access this member benefit. Head to https://vau.org.au/ to join TODAY!

02/06/2026

Important update for National Patient Transport members.

27/05/2026

The ambulance industry has some of the highest rates of workplace injury.

Ambulance workers regularly have to battle to have a safe workplace, to have workcover claims accepted when they are injured, or to get an appropriate return to work plan.

But if you are a union member, you dont have to deal with it alone.

18/05/2026

Another system failure that leads to paramedics and patient transport ambos being exposed to occupational violence.

Vital information sharing is a must in preventing assaults on ambulance workers.

“Not welcome lists” are leaving unwitting paramedics unloading violent or aggressive patients at hospital emergency departments for care, only to be turned away.

14/05/2026

Paramedics Elena and Maddie speaking about the impact of being assaulted on the job while pregnant.

Violence, aggression, threats and abuse towards ambos is never ok.

We can't save your life while we are fearing for our own.

13/05/2026

Assaults on paramedics.

We can’t save your life while we are fearing for our own!

13/05/2026

11/05/2026

10/05/2026

The lifesaving care our members provide is conditional on them being safe. If you assault, obstruct or threaten our members they will withdraw from the scene and you or your loved one may not get the care they need. You don’t want that on your conscience.

Ambos don’t need help with their equipment. They don’t need help moving the stretcher. They need a safe workplace. Please be a good bystander and if your mate is intoxicated or getting aggressive, take them outside and let them cool off so our members can do their important work.

Please help paramedics by being respectful and letting them save lives without fearing for their own.