Take action for safe staffing
- Make sure staffing shortages are documented. Use the escalation pathway relevant to your worksite to formally report staffing shortages.
- Get your workmates involved.
- Contact your organiser if you need support.
- Get your workmates together to create, take a photo and share your #thenurseweneed
Take action for safe staffing in Aged Care
Click here for more about taking action for safe staffing in aged care.
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Support the legal action for safe staffing at Te Whatu Ora
In November last year, NZNO filed a lawsuit against Health New Zealand arguing that the provision of safe staffing and a safe and healthy workplace is a right for all employees under our collective agreement and that Health New Zealand has breached the agreement by not providing a sufficient number of experienced staff in our hospitals.
We are now asking members around the motu that are also experiencing chronic short staffing to get involved in raising additional legal actions for each hospital. This will contribute to our ongoing collective bargaining campaign to secure enforceable, culturally appropriate nurse-to-patient ratios by enforcing our right to safe staffing under our collective agreement.
We have created an online form where members can draft their own powerful impact statements. These impact statements will form the basis of future legal actions which NZNO can file against Health New Zealand.
Te Whatu Ora safe staffing forms
- Limits of safe practice: Complete the form online or Download the form and complete in hard copy
- Safe staffing next shift: Complete the form online or Download the form and complete in hard copy
- Impact statement: Download the form
- Make a recommendation: Download the Guide and Form
- Download the poster There is an acute staffing shortage on this shift
Use other Health and Safety forms and guides
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H&S Guideline #01-Electing an Health and Safety Representative
Form for Guideline #01-Request for HSR election -
H&S Guideline #02-Requesting work health and safety information
Form for Guideline #02-Request information -
H&S Guideline #03-Submitting a work health and safety recommendation
Form for Guideline #03(a)-Make a recommendation (single HSR)
Form for Guideline #03(b)-Make a recommendation (collective action) -
H&S Guideline #04-Requesting help from a HSR in another work group
Form for Guideline #04-Request other HSR assistance -
H&S Guideline #05-Adverse conduct towards a worker or HSR
Form for Guideline #05-Report adverse conduct -
H&S Guideline #06-Raising a mentally heathy work issue
This Guideline will direct you to WorkSafe forms. -
H&S Guideline #07-Issuing a Provisional Improvement Notice
Form for Guideline #07-Issue a Provisional Improvement Notice -
H&S Guideline #08-Requesting WorkSafe assistance for a Health and Safety matter
This Guideline will direct you to WorkSafe forms. -
H&S Guideline #09-Cessation of unsafe work
Form for Guideline #09(a)-Worker notification of cessation of work
Form for Guideline #09(b)-Work team notification of cessation of work -
H&S Guideline #10-Directing a cessation of work
Form for Guideline #10-HSR direct a cessation of work -
H&S Guideline #11-Requesting assistance from WorkSafe relating to cessation of work
This Guideline will direct you to WorkSafe forms.
Build community support to create pressure on employers and the government to sustainably fix staffing shortages.
- Run informational pickets in your community to let the public know about staffing shortages in their local hospital or health care service.
- Run a market or community stall in your community to provide information both about shortages and our solutions or fixes. Let members of the public know how they can show support. This could include using the template to create and share #thenurseweneed
- Download the NZNO Guide: How to run a Safe Staffing public action (informational picket or stall)
Learn how other NZNO members have taken action for health and safety
Find out how NZNO members have been taking action for safe staffing.