David MacLean, Acting District Officer, Training Development Support and Compliance SES and Marine Rescue, has provided an update from the Operational Delivery section of the FES Academy:
“We ran the SES Training Program workshop on 13 June with representatives from the SES volunteer body, the SESVA,
District Officers, Training Products and Publications and Trainer Assessor coordination. It was a very intensive day with
discussions ranging from which courses were still relevant to what a new training program should look like. It has left me with a nice chunk of work and the new Training Program should be a more accurate reflection of training progression for our SES volunteers.
1. General Rescue—updates have been completed. These are mainly focused on nail gun conventions following ERAP 02/2026.
2. Next up:
• A full review of the Communications courses. One topic that the Training Program PAT was very clear on is that the communications courses need a lot of love. If there are volunteers or two who are enthusiastic about the radio word please contact DOsesmracademy@dfes.wa.gov.au. We would like a couple of Project Advisory Team members
• Storm and Water Damage Operations (Ground and Roof) need a few little tweaks to reflect the RSS changes. It is fantastic to see so many courses being run at the moment and all the new trainers getting endorsed!
Metro volunteers are answering the call to support regional training with volunteers heading up to the Kimberley to help with a Chainsaw Operator course in a few weeks.”
The Association thanks David for his ongoing support of SES volunteers in WA!