Thread by @AliciaTDennis

A THREAD
What happens if you do not pass #fittesting & there’s no safe face #mask for you to wear in #hospital #workplace #covid19vic #hcw @amavictoria

10 Questions:

1. What are your rights?

2. Will you be redeployed to a job that is safe for you away from clinical work?

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3. Will you be asked by your line manager, boss, admin person to take leave?

4. What if you have no paid leave to take, or don’t want to go on leave?

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5. When will the correct size or type mask be available for you to wear in your workplace?

6. Why doesn’t your hospital have other options like PAPR for you to wear so that you can do your work safely?

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7. Will there be #transparency of fit testing results at a hospital and state level - deidentified disaggregated data especially on sex and ethnicity

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8. FaceMasks are designed for the average male, does this mean females will be disadvantaged #Discriminated against with any policy that forces employees to take leave if available masks don’t pass fit testing?

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9. How is fit testing done in Sputh Australia? Likely all these issues have been worked out there. Are we following what SA does so that we are not reinventing the wheel
@ama_media

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10. Have #HCW in #COVID19Vic who’ve been infected with #SARSCoV2 (2744 people) recorded
-what facemasks they were wearing at work around time they got sick
-whether they’d been fit tested for the mask?

I’ve written previous thread on keeping diary & basic data to include

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