Utah Alcohol Seller Course - Alcohol Awareness Training - Utah

About Our Utah Alcohol Seller Training This course provides you with all the necessary knowledge and techniques you need to be a responsible server of alcohol. Specifically, you will learn: how to protect yourself and your establishment from liability; how alcohol affects your customers; how to recognize the effects of alcohol on your customers; how to prevent customers from becoming intoxicated; how to intervene when you need to cut someone off; how to prevent and deal with disturbances, and; how to accurately check IDs and recognize minors.

UT Online Course Alcohol Server Seller Course (State of Utah) Online version hosted by 360Training.com. Course Price: $30.00

In 1987, Utah became the second state in the country to require training for all on-premise alcohol servers. Ten states now have mandatory server training laws and six have voluntary programs.

Training for the responsible service of alcohol was not the government's idea. Before 1987, Utah's hospitality industry was already providing this training on a voluntary basis through programs developed by the National Restaurant Association and the American Hotel & Motel Association. The resulting legislation established a mandatory Alcohol Training and Education Seminar for employees of businesses that serve alcohol for consumption on the premises.

Who has to take the course?

• Every individual who is employed to:
  a. sell or furnish alcoholic beverages to consumers for consumption on the premises, or b. manage or supervise the service of alcoholic beverages; must complete an Alcohol Server Training and Education Course.
• Alcohol servers, managers, and supervisors must take and pass the seminar every three years.
• Persons holding an ownership interest in an on-premise licensed establishment must also take the seminar if they perform duties as a manager, supervisor, or server.

What will my employees gain from Alcohol Seller-Server Training?
Every individual who sells or furnishes alcoholic beverages to the public must complete an Alcohol Server Training and Education Seminar if that person is furnishing the alcohol for consumption on the business premises.  The subjects taught in the seminar include:

• Alcohol as a drug and its effects on the body and behavior.
• 2. Recognition of the problem drinker.
• 3. An overview of state alcohol laws.
• 4. Dealing with problem customers.
• 5. Discussing alternative means of transportation for customers who need help safely arriving at home.
• 6. Servers must complete the training within 30 days of commencing employment.

How to look up a server
There is a web-based computer program that functions as a registry for the people who have been certified to serve alcohol in the Utah. It is maintained by the Division of Substance Abuse and called the Alcohol Server Training System. You can use it to search for the name of a certified server. You may also use the system to verify the term of a server's certification and when it expires. The link to the Alcohol Server Training System is:

http://www.hsdsa.utah.gov/beverageserverreports.htm