Volunteers are categorized according to role.

Roles may be classified as:

Category 1 - High Responsibility (high risk) -  A Category 1 role performs tasks that have a high responsibility for others and/or other types of responsibility or risk (e.g., handling parish money, handling privileged documents, transporting others; parish board of directors, finance and pastoral council members).

Category 2 - Low Responsibility (low risk) - A Category 2 role performs tasks that have a low responsibility for others.