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This Driver Competency Standard has been written
and published by Driver
Improvement Consultancy Pty Ltd. In preparing
it the authors have attempted to capture the lived
experience of competent ambulance officers. The
standard contains the ideas and reflects the
experience of many thoughtful ambulance personnel
in the Metropolitan Ambulance Service, Rural
Ambulance Victoria, Queensland Ambulance Service
and the ambulance services of New South Wales,
Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and
Tasmania.
The revised document closely mirrors the
original text but benefits from twelve months of
use in the workplace. Those familiar with version
one will notice that the titles of Units Three and
Four have changed. You will also see performance
criteria and information added to these units.
These changes, and other small changes through out
the document, improve the way the document
communicates the standard; they do not demand a
different or higher standard.
The competency standard uses sound educational
principles and, as far as possible, complies with
the principles and contemporary practice in the
Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. In
some instances it has deviated from VET practice to
better suit the needs of an enterprise-specific
standard and to comply with the insights of current
road safety research.
The standard has been strengthened as a road
safety measure because of the research themes it
embraces. We would like to thank Alan Drummond, Dr
Leonard Evans, Dr Soames Job, Dr Frank McKenna, Dr
D De Joy, Dr Don Martin, Dr Rudiger Trimpop, and
Professor Gerald Wilde. They will see their
fundamental research reflected in these pages. Any
inaccuracies or omissions are ours, not theirs.
While sound educational and road safety theory
underpins the final product, it is by no means set
in concrete. It is intended to be dynamic and to
evolve as we learn more about the nature of
professional ambulance driving. At the back of the
standard you will see a form you can photocopy and
use to tell us how you think the standard can be
improved.
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