TIPS for Off Premise - Utah is specifically designed for people who sell alcohol and work in the retail liquor, convenience/gas station, wholesale club, or grocery industry. Through your roles in the sale of alcohol, you face a unique set of challenges. TIPS for Off Premise – Utah has a special focus that takes into account the setting and demands of your job and the seller-customer and seller-manager relations within your industry.
As a seller of alcohol, you have an important job. You are expected to balance the needs of your customers with the expectations of your managers and the requirements of the law. That is a lot to do!
This course is designed to build on your existing skills as a seller of alcohol to prevent underage sales, drunk driving, and sales to intoxicated customers. You will learn strategies and skills that can help you balance providing excellent customer service with ensuring only legal alcohol sales.
TIPS for Off Premise - Utah consists of three main areas of focus: Information, Skills Training, and Practice/Rehearsal. In addition to fulfilling Utah regulatory requirements, TIPS training covers mitigation strategies that result in increased professionalism and improved customer service among staff.
This program is designed to help you use your people skills to sell alcohol safely and legally. In addition to preventing the illegal sale or delivery of alcohol, you learn how to handle intoxicated customers while also ensuring courteous and safe service. The intervention techniques reflect the short period of time you have to interact with a customer in a sales situation.
TIPS for Off Premise - Utah can also help an establishment protect itself from possible litigation and often results in reduced liability insurance premiums.
Once you complete the lessons, quizzes and pass the final exam with a score of at least 70%, you'll get an official TIPS Certificate that you can print right away!
TIPS is a 360training company.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Name and explain the three types of illegal alcohol sales, and some of the penalties those sales can incur.
- Define and differentiate between the two kinds of laws covering liability for sellers of alcohol.
- Describe Utah’s Good Samaritan Law and explain how it protects alcohol sellers and servers who assist during a suspected opioid overdose.
- Identify the signs of an opioid overdose and outline the proper steps for safely administering naloxone (Narcan®) in an emergency.
- Define and explain the purpose of reasonable efforts.
- Identify how your store might benefit from using reasonable efforts and provide at least three examples.
- Recognize IDs that are acceptable as proof of age to purchase alcohol and use the three steps for properly checking an ID.
- Identify behaviors in customers that could be considered underage warning signs.
- Understand the special challenges associated with checking IDs and alcohol delivery.
- Define Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) as it pertains to liquor liability laws and identify your Utah’s legal BAC limit for Driving While Intoxicated.
- Identify important pieces of information and complete relevant forms following guidelines needed for proper documentation.
- Explain the benefits and purpose of the Incident Report Form.
- Learn about the seven key Utah alcohol-related laws that every server must know to be successful.
- Know how to prevent and eliminate alcohol sales to youth with the information provided by the state of Utah.
- Know the Alcoholic beverage licenses, Utah permits, beer regulation, and criminal offenses.
- Apply the legal information you learned and decide whether or not a customer can purchase alcohol based on the legal age criteria.
- Recognize that alcohol is a drug and understand how it affects the body.
- Explain the effects of alcohol on teens and define the four behavioral cues.
- Identify example behaviors that relate to each behavioral cue.
- Recognize behavioral cues in your customers and relate to Blood Alcohol Content (BAC).
- Understand what can lower a person's BAC level.
- Rely on behavioral cues in addition to BAC when deciding whether or not to sell alcohol to a customer.
- Evaluate customers for behavioral cues and decide whether or not you can sell alcohol to a customer based on his or her level of intoxication.
- Follow safe-selling guidelines designed to help you avoid illegal alcohol sales.
- Determine relevant guidelines for a given selling situation and apply those guidelines successfully.
- Understand strategies that can help you assess your customer based on the legal and alcohol criteria you have learned.
- Consider four decision point questions before deciding whether or not to sell alcohol to any customer.
- Select from among four possible responses that can apply to any given selling situation.
- Choose the most appropriate response based on your assessment and answers to the four decision point questions.
- Assess customers in simulated situations using the legal and alcohol information you learned earlier in the course.
- Answer four decision point questions for each customer and selling situation.
- Choose and implement an appropriate response to a simulated situation, incorporating the safe-selling and customer service guidelines.