Fleet & Equipment Working Group

The Fleet and Equipment Working Group discussed COVID-19 related impacts on the provision of fleet and equipment.

Other topics have included impact on vehicle design on infection control, base standards for ambulance vehicles, bariatric vehicles, standards for multipurpose vehicles, power stretchers, stroke ambulance design, recalls and failures, as well as alternative energy sources and sustainable vehicles.

Two main focuses were Bariatric stretchers and vehicles and Four-wheel Drive vehicles

The Bariatric sub-group shared bariatric patient vehicle and equipment plans in hopes to improve bariatric patient prehospital care.

Similarly, the Four-wheel Drive sub-group discussed options for their current four-wheel drive vehicles and shared future plans. The subgroup was created to look at designing an improved four-wheel vehicle, which would have better access and transport solutions for patients located in four-wheel drive conditions.