If you are not required to have an approved manager or become an approved manager, and you are not an individual licensee, you do not need to complete the RMLV course. Although there are several exceptions and exemptions that may apply.

Exceptions
Approved Manager requirements do not apply at premises:

• where a promotional event is held for the sale and/or supply of craft beer under a craft beer producer permit
• if liquor is served or supplied only by volunteers in a premise operating under a community club licence, community other licence, community liquor permit or restricted liquor permit
• if the premises is a boat or on a boat licensed under a subsidiary on-premises licence.

Exemptions ‘Low risk premises’
Several exemptions apply for low-risk premises (whom who cease trade at midnight) that would otherwise be subject to the approved manager requirements. Low risk premises include:

• a subsidiary on-premises licence with the principal activity of meals or prepared food (i.e., restaurant or café)
• a community club licence with no more than 2,000 members
• a community other licence
• a restricted liquor permit

How-ever: Any Low-risk premises who has permission to trade in liquor past midnight must ensure an approved manager is physically present at the premises for any authorise trade past midnight.

Under the Liquor Act 1992 licensed premises need to display the following signs in a conspicuous part of the premises:

• Liquor licence/permit details – more information involving to this requirement can be found at Liquor guideline 14: Particulars to be displayed on licensed premises.
• View RAMP sign – letting your patrons know of their right to see the venue’s risk assessed management plan (RAMP)
• CCTV in use sign – if your licensed venue is situation in Brisbane City Council area and has approved trading hours after 1am or your licence document contains a CCTV-related condition.
• ID scanning collection notice – IF your venue is a regulated premises for ID scanning purposes then you must display a summary of your privacy policy at or near the entrance so patrons can view it before producing ID.

Yes, a detailed induction will ensure all the necessary compliance areas are explained and the venue philosophy clearly outlined.

No matter what industry you’re in or what type of business you’re running, everyone within the workplace is responsible for workplace health and safety. SafeWork Australia categorises people working within a business as:

• The Person Conducting Business or Undertaking (PCBU)
• Officers
• Workers
• Other persons at the workplace

According to Safework Australia, everyone in the above list has a varying degree of responsibility for WHS.

Everyone within a business has a different level of WHS responsibility depending on their position within the company. The PCBU is responsible to ensure the health and safety of its workers and ensuring people are not put at risk because of carrying out their work. Officers within the workplace need to exercise due diligence to ensure that the PCBU complies with its duties.

If you are an employee or worker at a workplace, you also have a responsibility regarding WHS. Your duty is to take reasonable care for your own safety and to ensure your own actions do not negatively impact the health and safety of others. Even people who are visiting your workplace have a responsibility to WHS. Similar to workers, other persons at the workplace are responsible for their own safety and to ensure their actions do not adversely affect the health and safety of others.

Safety is everyone’s responsibility!

Investing in a good Work Health and Safety program in your workplace will:

• Reduce risk of prosecution, protecting you, your business, and your employees
• Increase compliance with the WHS Act
• Protect your employees from injury or harm
• Identify and minimise or eliminate unnecessary risks and hazards
• Reduce staff absenteeism and sick leave
• Reduce workers’ compensation claims
• Improve employee engagement and operational efficiency
• Increase cost savings and improve business performance

Poor safety practice in the workplace not only has a financial cost but can also have an emotional and physical impact on all parties involved. Work-related injuries, illnesses and fatalities impose a direct cost on the business and individual, but they also have a cost to the wider community, particularly when it comes to rehabilitation. Safe Work Australia suggests that there are direct and indirect costs.

• Direct costs such as workers’ compensation premiums paid by employers or payments to injured workers, and
• Indirect costs include loss of productivity, loss of current and future earnings, lost potential output and the cost of social welfare programs for those who need them in their recovery and rehabilitation.

Safework Australia defines a hazard as “a situation or thing that has the potential to harm a person” while it describes risk as “the possibility that harm – death, injury, or illness – might occur when exposed to a hazard”

The best thing you can do as an employer to prove WHS compliance is to ensure all employees are receiving and understanding regular training. It is important that you keep up to date and in-depth training records on the training that has been complete.

Training/Development should be run regularly and refreshed on an annual or bi-annual basis. This will help ensure that employees know and understand what their safety responsibilities are and how to keep themselves and others within the workplace safe.

If a serious incident or workplace fatality occurs, particularly where a court case or hearing in the coroner’s court is required, sufficient training records are essential in proving compliance.