New Community Safety Co-ordinator Flexible ways to fill the BMT role in your Brigade

1. New Community Safety Co-ordinator Flexible ways to fill the BMT role in your Brigade

2. Overview of this session • What are the new community safety roles – the mandated BMT role and the optional community safety roles. • How you can make them work for your brigade – look at ‘real life’ examples from other brigades who have established and structured up com safety in a way that works for them and their communities. • Practical tips and approaches your brigade can use to fill the roles • Tools and resources available to support you and your brigade to develop and build a community safety role or team. • Question time

3. The new Membership Classificationwhat's it all about? Communities are changing Membership Classification offers flexibility and changes to the way brigades are structured and managed to effectively meet the needs of their communities. Volunteerism is changing The changes will also provide a volunteer membership structure that caters to the changing and varied nature of modern volunteerism. One of the changes is the formalisation of the Community Safety responsibilities within a brigade.

4. Brigade Structure & Roles Role descriptors will be developed for all roles Boxes represent roles not people

5. One size will not fit all! Flexibility is the key

6. One size will not fit all! Flexibility is the key

7. Brigade Structures – Drouin West Fire Brigade

8. Brigade Structures – Bayswater Fire Brigade

9. Brigade Structures - Upper Beaconsfield Fire Brigade

11. Integrated Fire Station

12. Group 17 entities Other structures – Warracknabeal model, Grampians Region Social club brigade Group brigade brigade brigade Secretary & Treasurer brigade brigade Secretary & Treasurer – one of each for the whole “hub” brigade brigade Brigades with BMT brigade brigade brigade brigade Juniors brigade Auxilliary N.B. Each of the 17 entities keeps own BMT • Small farms turning in to larger farms • Ageing and declining populations • Lack of numbers turning out to incidents • Most volunteers part of more than one community group (burnout

13. Group 17 entities Other structures – LMR Com Ed Team Secretary & Treasurer Brigades with BMT

14. Group 17 entities Other structures – HQ Brigade – specialising in DECC & ICC support Secretary & Treasurer Brigades with BMT Specialise in com safety team?

15. Recruiting for community safety roles

16. Tips to fill your community safety roles Wonga Park Fire Brigade Fire Safety Puppet Show Goal: to recruit 15 volunteer puppeteers to implement a fire safety performance over a 2 year period. 2 scripts, summer and winter. For schools and festivals/fetes.

17. Tips to fill your community safety roles “Puppets? You have got to be kiddin’ me!”

18. Tips to fill your community safety roles • Start with targeting existing members-give them an opportunity to get involved – you never know til you ask! (2 members were keen) • Target members who may have dropped off from attending the brigade – maybe they want a change of pace (1 member) • Target family members of existing members • (4 members – really successful!)

19. Tips to fill your community safety roles • Members from neighbouring brigades (4 members) strike a deal! • Recruit from the community – target individuals, target groups(2 members theatre group), if required go community wide • Recognise the good work they do! • 13 recruited and the project ran for 3 years. • Won a fire awareness award .

20. Tools & Resources - Sample role descriptions • Six flexible templates have been developed and can be modified to cater for your needs • Brigade Community Safety Coordinator • (mandated BMT role) • Brigade Vegetation Management (Fuel reduction) • F&EM Planning (Fire Prevention) • Community Engagement/Relations • Community Education and Information • Group role: Group Community Safety Role

21. Tools to support the new roles(new mandated BMT role) Speak to your catchment teams – BASOsand CECs

22. Tools to support the new roles(new mandated BMT role) A Community Safety Training Package has now being developed to support the new brigade Community Safety roles. Awareness sessions for the new mandated community safety role will be conducted in the coming months to support brigades. Membership Sustainability Pilot To assist participating brigades to trial a range of options and approaches to improve membership structure. Support may include: brigade roles, structure, membership diversity • The new Volunteer Support Program • project staff here today: • Recruitment, Retention & Recognition • Growth and decline • Engaging Diverse Communities • Leadership/welfare • Membership Sustainability Pilot

23. In Conclusion…To establish and fill the BMT role in your brigade… • Clearly outline what the role is, what's involved, the specifics, use the role description templates to guide you. Use targeted recruitment approaches. • Establish and “Structure up” how the role or the community safety team will work in your brigade. • Recruiting for the role • Tap an existing member on the shoulder – personal approach • Try family members of existing members • Try members who’s attendance may have dropped off • Recruit from community – personal approach , approach a group, then go community wide. • Use the tools, resources and staff available to support you

24. Questions

25. Community Safety Engagement Training Pathway

26. Brigade Classification

27. Brigade Classification