MEXICO — The River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition will offer a free training course to help store clerks, management and licensees better prevent liquor law violations.
It will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at the Town Hall at 134 Main St.
The course, Seller Server Training for Off-premise Licensees, is designed to better equip personnel in identifying and preventing violations of specific liquor laws while emphasizing underage and high-risk drinkers.
Along with learning about these laws, training is provided on ways to identify minors and visibly-intoxicated persons, and having a good policy to refer to when dealing with them, according to a recent coalition report.
The training often leads to reduced insurance rates.
“More importantly, however, it will help reduce the risk of making costly and/or tragic unlawful sales,” Sandra Witas, coalition project coordinator, said.
Key points in the training are: identifying minors and visibly-intoxicated persons, intervention to prevent a visibly-intoxicated patron from driving, how alcohol is ingested and metabolized by the body, what alcoholism is and how alcohol affects the body, false identification detection and carding policy, the importance of good written policies and the Liquor Liability Act.
This is a 4.5-hour Maine-approved program.
Registration is required and lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Witas at 364-7408 or rvhccwitas@gwi.net.
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