1. Current state: majority of corporates currently have 1 day/year/person yet less than 5% of staff actually use this opportunity. One day of volunteer service does more harm than benefit in the heat of an emergency, people need training and set up to be coordinated into effective input. The proposition that Aurecon is testing is aggregating this volunteer days into a selection of committed volunteers that can devote 3 months+ to emergency management response and bring additional technical capabilities to response activities. For our organisation, this would mean we have 95% of 6,500 people days per year that could channelled into emergency management response = 6,175 days or 24 people full-time per year. This can be delivered within existing corporate policy but with care to ensure the value of the opportunity is not lost but rather enhanced through transfer of right to volunteer but with larger impact and a rotation and training of longer term volunteers. We are one of 65,000 large businesses in Australia – the potential source of strategic longer term volunteerism is significant, back of envelope estimation is well beyond 15,000 people full-time volunteers per year of spare (un-utilised capacity). How do we get better at this as corporates addressing the EM volunteer shortfall – in a smarter way.