TRAINING
Training Services
I mostly just do the Personal Licence Training and Refresher Training plus a bit of the 2 hour mandatory staff training which I combine with the Age Verification training and provide a certificate covering both.
I have also been asked to conduct a course on ID, e.g. how to identify a “Biometric Immigration Document” etc.
I offer an annual ‘Compliance Healthcheck’ re checking what you require to keep in the premises and post on the walls. This involves checking peoples’ Personal Licences which should help with Refresher compliance! Picks up situations where the DPM has left and not been timeously replaced or even where companies holding the Premises Licence have been “put down” on Accountants’ advice where folk have forgotten they hold the Premises Licence – oops!
I offer a ‘Best Practice’ service
I have seen Police now asking Operators to have staff / security undertake “Alcohol Awareness ” training in cases where there have been issues around possible drunk customers.
Also I have been preparing Alcohol Management Plans for major one off events such as the outside stages in the Merchant City during the Commonwealth Games.
I have noticed that there is an uptake on the full Personal Licence training courses since the Refresher debacle!
Remember also that the Refresher Armageddon will happen all over again in 2019 when Personal Licence Holders require to do the full training again before applying to renew their PLs at the end of the 10 year term. Aaaaagh!!!
Refresher Training
This is still very much a ticking time bomb!!!
OK so you have to do 2 things within very tight timescales…
1. Pass the Refresher Training exam within 5 years of the date of issue of your Personal Licence
and
2. Within a further 3 months from 5 years of the date of issue of the Personal Licence the PL holder must notify the Licensing Board that he/she has passed the Refresher exam.
So what happens if a Personal Licence holder does not do both of these things?
He/she doesn’t deserve to hold a licence. There is no capital punishment and we can’t administer the birch so let it be revoked! Not… let the Boards decide to warn/endorse/suspend. And let’s ignore those people who are abroad, sick, caring for dependent relatives or temporarily outwith the trade…
This remains a car crash waiting to happen – all the more so now that the publicity has died down after the August and November madness – and there is no sign that independent operators have the situation under control.
Readers should know that if you haven’t completed both stages 1 and 2 above you can surrender your Personal Licence before the 3 month period in stage 2. Then you can re-apply for a new Personal Licence.
Do be aware that if you are re-applying for a Personal Licence after surrender, some Boards will require you to retrain, despite no requirement in the Act, and others do not. I know some trainers do not check this with their attendees and subject them to unnecessary training, just as I am aware of trainers who do superfluous Refresher Courses for people who are too late to use the certificates.
Also in my view you can do your Refresher Training 5 minutes after you get your Personal Licence. You don’t have to wait the 5 years. Then at least you can relax for 9 plus years!!!
Robin Morton does twice monthly Refresher courses or to order if desperate!
Training Dates
Personal Licence Training
TUES 12 MAY
THURS 28 MAY
TUES 09 JUNE
THURS 25 JUNE
THURS 09 JULY
THURS 30 JULY
THURS 13 AUGUST
THURS 27 AUGUST
Refresher Training
TUES 12 MAY
THURS 28 MAY
TUES 09 JUNE
THURS 25 JUNE
THURS 09 JULY
THURS 30 JULY
THURS 13 AUGUST
THURS 27 AUGUST
LICENSING
Outside Licences
If you are in Glasgow and use the public highway for tables and chairs remember you needed to renew your s59 Roads Department permission before it expired on 31 March. The Roads Dept permission runs from 01 April to 31 March each year.
Also get your occasional licence applications lodged in time. 4 to 6 weeks advance notice.
Licensing Health Check
Worried about compliance???!!! For a mere 200 quid (for Glasgow) we can provide a Licensing Health Check which includes checking on your licensing systems/documents/training/refresher training & notices etc. on an annual visit and being on hand to assist on routine matters such as updating certificates, providing notices etc… Is your manager’s Personal Licence needing refreshed?? Call or email me if interested.
Glasgow Licensing Board Extended Hours 2 May Holiday Weekends
If you said yes to Seasonal Variations in Q4 of your Operating Plan you get an extra hour on the Saturdays of the following weekends without applying. If you are a late night venue then you get the Sunday too.
• The evening of Saturday 2 May into the early hours of Sunday 3 May 2015
• The evening of Saturday 23 May into the early hours of Sunday 24 May 2015
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