This is just some of the reasons why responsible service of alcohol is so important
In some states of Australia your RSA qualification only lasts for a certain amount of time and then you need to do an RSA refresher course. Which is effectively doing the RSA certificate again.
In Queensland your RSA certificate lasts for 3 years and other states may change how long theirs is valid for at any time.
If you did your original certificate online then you will know how quick and easy it is. If you did your original course face to face then you will probably not be to keen to do that again so soon. Doing the course online will save you time and money.
If you have been working in the industry for the last 3 years then the course will be super easy as you will be really familiar with the rules and regulations and find the questions really easy.
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If you are coming to Australia to do some work on a travel visa you may well be surprised to know that you are required to do a Responsible service of Alcohol training course before you will be permitted to work in a bar in Australia. These are just the policies and there is no way around it. Bars could be fined hundreds if they hire you with out you having completed the certificate within a certain time frame. So in order to make sure you can work straight away you need to consider doing the course on-line prior to arriving in Australia.
Then when you are`ready to get a job all you have to do is log into the course and print out your certificate. The RSA Course teaches you a wide variety of things to do with serving alcohol responsibly. You will understand the normal drink measurements and all about the fines that could be received for not adhering to the recommendations. You will also learn about what is expected of you in a setting in which you have to deal with somebody who is intoxicated and how to work out how intoxicated they are.
For more info on the RSA Course which can also be completed as an RSA refresher course see RSA Course Online
So what makes us like one alcohol and not another? I imagine it is just personal preference. Why does someone prefer savory and other person prefer sweet. I remember when I was kid and Dad would let me have a sip of his beer. It tasted so awful to me, and funnily enough I have never been able to drink beer since. Even wine took a long time to like.
I used to drink cider when beer, wine, cider and spirits were really the only choice. Now there are so many sweet drinks available that there are plenty to choose from. I have always had a sweet tooth so suppose it is no surprise that I would prefer sweet drinks. But I wonder if that is the case with everyone. If you prefer chocolate do you prefer sweet drinks and if you prefer salty chips do you prefer beer and other bitter drinks?
When it comes to responsible drinking most people find that it is difficult to drink loads of sweet alcohol. So in a way people are more likely to do their own responsible service of alcohol if serving themselves sweet drinks.
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A standard drink is considered to be 10g of alcohol. So therefore the volume of a standard drink will vary depending on the % of alcohol that is the drink.
For example : If you are drinking wine and it says it is 10% alcohol. That means it has 10g of alcohol for 100ml of wine. (ie 10g / 100ml x 100 = 10%). So standard drink of that wine is only 100ml.
Now it gets a bit more tricky when the % is not 10%. Just say a beer is 5.5% alcohol. That means it has 5.5g of alcohol per 100ml of beer. 200ml of beer would give you 11g of alcohol. Just over 1 standard drink.
This is why many companies now have to write how many standard drinks there is in each bottle of alcohol on the side. As it is very complicated to work out when sober!!!
Now if you are going to drink wine or spirits in a bar it can be difficult to work how much alcohol you have had as wine can vary in it’s percentage of alcohol. Spirits can also vary. It helps though to know that a nip/shot is 30ml. So if a spirit is 30% alcohol (30g per 100ml) and you have 1 shot of 30ml then you are having about 10g of alcohol in each shot. Some spirits can be higher then this and some lower.
So if you have a favourite drink it helps to look at a bottle of it and see what the percentage alcohol is.
eg Kahlua is 20% alcohol
Therefore 100ml has 20g of alcohol. If you had 3 shots of 30ml = 90 ml total you will have had nearly 20g or 2 standard drinks.
How to Calculate for any alcohol.
1. What is the % alcohol (15%)
2. That means how many grams per 100ml (15 g of alcohol)
3. How many mls am I drinking (200ml)
4. How many standard drinks is that (200ml = 30g of alcohol= 3 standard drinks)
Alcohol even in small amounts effects our ability to think and function. So in small amounts it can be relaxing and therefore beneficial. However it is having an effect on us even if it is a good one. In large amounts alcohol can impair our judgment and people can take dangerous risks that they would never normally take. They may not pay as much attention to things like traffic or other moving objects and really injure themselves.
Have you heard of the research where men and women were asked to look at photos of 10 people from the opposite sex when they were sober and point out who looked attractive. They all choose 2-3 people. Then when they had been given a few drinks they were asked to look at the same 10 photos and most now seemed to find 7-8 of them attractive. If you have ever met someone when you have had quite a few drinks and then met them again when they are sober you will know how different they can look.
So since we know we are impaired when drinking, it really is the establishment providing the alcohol that has to take responsibility for the people who are drinking or provide Responsible Service Of Alcohol. The establishment is making money out of it and so even though the individual should take responsibility for themselves, there are always those who can be influenced by things like happy hour to over consume.
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It is important for a community as a whole to ensure people drink responsibly. It can effect the way a community functions if many people are over consuming alcohol and not able to work effectively and it may even be dangerous. From the perspective of the drinking establishment it can also be harmful if you receive a bad name for having lots of out of control patrons who injure themselves or others.
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