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The 2015 Volunteer Welfare & Efficiency Surveyis now open until 31 August - to complete the survey now click here.
The Victorian Emergency Service Association (VESA) invites all VICSES volunteers to take part in a volunteer-run survey that will better equip your association to advise VICSES and Government on what’s most important to volunteers.
The survey as designed and road tested with emergency management volunteers, so it gets straight to the point on issues that matter to the people on the front line. The survey includes 33 questions on those issues, and takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete. Each question asks how important the issue is to you, and how well you feel it is being handled by VICSES.
Why a volunteer survey?
This annual survey began with the CFA volunteers’ association, Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria (VFBV) three years ago, and VFBV is how hosting the VICSES volunteers’ version on behalf of VESA.
The results will be compared year to year, to show trends in how volunteers feel on each of the issues. It is a co-operative process; VFBV and the CFA Board both study the CFA volunteers’ version to highlight aspects of volunteer support that need attention. VESA will put our survey to the same use, providing reliable facts and figures to support the association’s representation of all VICSES volunteers.
Your individual answers will be confidential, but the overall results will go straight to the decision makers.
The survey is designed to identify the factors that volunteers feel have a key impact on their welfare and efficiency, to establish ways of measuring whether things are getting better or worse, and to develop a process that uses these measures to ensure better support for VICSES volunteers and Units.
Open to all VICSES volunteers
This survey is making our representation more effective and making sure every volunteer’s voice has the chance to be heard, whether you and your Unit are actively involved with VESA or not.
Last year’s survey drew more than 1,600 responses.
The survey will give VESA facts and figures we can use in working for the benefit of volunteers, Units and the communities they protect, so we urge all VICSES volunteers to take part.
To complete the survey now, click here.
If you would prefer a paper survey sent by post, contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or email the VESA Secretary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The survey will remain open until 31 August 2015.
