Florida Responsible Vendor Course
Alcohol abuse can have a devastating effect to the public, your business, and employees. Serving responsibly produces safer roads and neighborhoods and a more profitable business.
Florida Responsible Vendor Course
The Intention of this training is to:
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Eliminate the sale and service of alcoholic beverages to underage patrons
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Reduce alcohol related injuries & deaths
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Encourage prudent serving practices
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Promote professionalism and responsibility on the part of your staff
This is a continual educational program recognized by DBPR (Department of Business and Professional Development), and the DAB&T (Department of Business And Tobacco) to assist owners, managers and staff in the laws and effects of alcohol, drug interaction, and how these laws affect you and your profession. In order to maintain your compliance with the Responsible Vendor Act, all owners and managers must complete the course required within 15 days of hire and employees tested within 30 days of hire. In addition, attendance is required at each of our scheduled meetings three times a year.
Benefits of the S.E.R.V.E. Responsible Vendor Program
The license of a vendor qualified as a responsible vendor under this act may not be suspended or revoked for an employee’s illegal sale or service of an alcoholic beverage to a person who is not of lawful drinking age or for an employee’s engaging in or permitting others to engage in the illegal sale, use of, or trafficking in controlled substances if the employee had completed the applicable training prescribing by this act prior to committing such violation, unless the vendor had knowledge of the violation, should have known about the violation, or participated in or committed such violation. No vendor may use as a defense to suspension or revocation the fact that he was absent from the licensed premises at the time a violation of the Beverage Law occurred if the violations are flagrant, persistent, repeated, or recurring. The division shall consider qualification as a responsible vendor in mitigation of administration penalties for an employee’s illegal sale or service of an alcoholic beverage to a person who is not of lawful drinking age and if the vendor has administered the applicable courses for controlled substances, for an employee’s engaging in the illegal sale, use of, or trafficking in controlled substances.