It's all in a day's work for thousands of businesses and their employees across Aotearoa. By supporting our brigades and allowing their employees to respond to incidents during mahi, our Proud Employers are helping make your communities safer.

As a self-employed volunteer, or an employer of our volunteers, you’re an essential part of our support crew.

We’re committed to recognising the support of our self-employed volunteers and volunteers’ employers. We raise awareness of employer’s valuable contribution by:

• offering a ‘Proud Employer of Fire and Emergency Volunteers’ mark for employers of volunteers to display to the public
• promoting employers of volunteers in our annual nationwide campaign, which recognises the vital contribution businesses play in our communities
• listing volunteer’s employers on our trucks, on signs outside local stations, and on our web directory
• publishing an annual ‘Thank You’ advert that lists local employers
• hosting our employers at annual recognition events.

Employing Fire and Emergency volunteers is rewarding. Benefits to your business or organisation include:

• employees with transferable skills they’ve developed through training with Fire and Emergency, e.g. first-aid, problem solving and leadership
• a sense of pride knowing that your business or organisation plays a vital role in keeping our communities safe
• recognition as a socially responsible employer which may mean more engaged and loyal employees.