More than 40 confidential spreadsheets containing the pre-employment drug test results of hundreds of graduate paramedics were posted on the Ambulance Victoria intranet, according to the Victorian Ambulance Union.
Ambulance Victoria said it would provide wellbeing support to staff whose drug and alcohol test results had been caught up in the privacy breach.The data included the names of graduates, the dates of their tests, whether their test results were positive or negative and the types of drugs detected in their system.
Hill said the union would be assisting members with their legal options and a number of distressed paramedics had already been in contact to find out if they were caught up in the breach, which involved test results from May 2017 to October 2018. “Members want to know what their rights are,” he said. “If they have a case we will help them with that.”Ambulance Victoria employees are routinely tested for alcohol, illicit drugs and medication stored on ambulances such as fentanyl and morphine.
He said the incident would cause “enormous distress and potential embarrassment” to employees whose private information had been published.
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