With the release of the new Brigade Manual and Constitution, the categories of membership within a Brigade has changed.

Where we used to have Firefighters, Support Members and Associate Members we now have Firefighter, Support and Community Member.

It might pay to change the default catergories in the program as Associate doesn't exist anymore. Even though we can edit associate and make it something else the legend on the view members page still refers to associate.

An extract from the constitution is below.

A new rank structure is comming in shortly too, but that can be dealt with when it happens.

Regards
Brett Bain


(a) An Firefighter member is one who:
i) Is physically fit and engages in fire prevention and fire-fighting activities, as is deemed appropriate by the brigade. Firefighter members may additionally perform any of the other roles described.
ii) Fire-fighting activities are: fire-fighting, any activity which involves attendance at a fire or fire training, attendance at a fire front or fire ground, field radio operation and first aid.
iii) Fire-fighting activities need competencies that are kept current by practice and training, and full use of issued PPE.

(b) A Support member is one who:
i) Is able to offer the brigade other services that justify the granting of membership to that person. Such services may include non-operational roles, such as Secretary, Treasurer,Chairperson, base radio operator, caterer and a person who undertakes general roles such as deliveries to the fireground.
ii) A support member may need training for the particular roles, and need a lower level of PPE for protection in that role.

(c) A Community member:
i) May include those who support the brigade but do not have an activity level at meetings, training sessions or fire prevention;
ii) May have prior skills in fire fighting, but the brigade cannot be certain of their current competence, fitness or familiarity with brigade operating rules;
iii) Is not supported by QFRS Rural Operations training and equipment budgets; and
iv) Has no rights at meetings unless brigades make rules that allow community members to have such rights.