Train your bar, door and floor staff on drugs. £22.50 a place.
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.
Each person does the course on their own phone, passes a test marked for them, and gets a certificate with a QR code that anyone can scan to check. You see who has passed on your own page. You confirm on a sign-off sheet that each person knows your own drugs policy, register and seizure container.
£22.50 a place is the whole price. It costs the same for one place or fifty.
Drugs in a pub, bar or club are a matter for the people who run the place as well as for the police. The law makes them answerable for it, and a licence to sell alcohol can be lost over it.
You may not be a manager. The manager is the one who can be prosecuted if they knowingly let it carry on, and they can only act on what they are told. So tell them.
Section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 makes it an offence for the occupier of premises, or anyone concerned in managing them, to knowingly allow certain things to happen there.
The section names producing drugs, supplying them or offering to supply them, and smoking cannabis. Your premises' drugs policy goes further. It bans all drugs, every time.
Your manager gives you the drugs policy. It says who does what: where the register is kept, where the seizure container is, who searches, and who calls the police and when. Ask for it if you have not seen it.
The Crown Prosecution Service says a person is concerned in the management of premises if they run them, organise them or plan the running of them. If you are the manager on shift, that is you.
The offence needs knowledge. The CPS says wilful blindness may be enough to show it, but mere suspicion is not. In plain words, you cannot get round the offence by deliberately not looking.
A manager who watches a deal at the end of the bar and carries on pulling pints is in trouble. A manager who sees it, tells the door team and writes it down is doing the job.
Suspicion alone is not the offence. Tell someone anyway. Let them decide what to do next.
Why should a bar assistant who is not a manager still tell the manager about a deal?
Section 8 names producing drugs, supplying them and smoking cannabis. What does your premises' drugs policy ban?
About 30 minutes for the lessons and their practice questions, then a 15 question test. The lessons are short, so staff can do them in short sittings on a break or at home.
The sign-off sheet asks about a written drugs policy signed by your DPS, a search and refusal policy, an incident and seizure register, a seizure container and an agreed way to hand items to the police. Have these ready before your staff sit the test. The course teaches the rules. Your own policy, register and container are yours to put in place.
After you pay you get one link to share with your staff. Each person opens it on their phone, types their name and starts. The name goes on their certificate. They get their own link to come back to.
Everyone who works the bar, the floor or the door, and every manager. It is written for premises that sell alcohol to drink on the premises. The DPS and the premises licence holder should take it too, so the people who run the place have done the same course as the people they manage.
A PHW Services certificate in the holder's name, with the date and a QR code. It says they completed the online course and passed the test, and lists what the course covered. You keep it as evidence of the training you gave.
Section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 makes it an offence for the occupier, or a person concerned in the management of premises, to knowingly permit or suffer drug supply, production or cannabis smoking there. The licensing guidance says the licence holder, as an employer, will normally be responsible for making sure managers are competent and appropriately trained. The certificate and the sign-off sheet are your record of the training you gave.
Yes. It is built for a phone screen. They need an internet connection.
Scan the QR code on it, or look up the certificate number on PHW's check page. It shows the holder, the course and the date, so nothing needs finding in a filing cabinet.
They are told which lessons to re-read, and they can sit the test again as many times as they need. Each go draws a fresh set of questions.
The course sets no expiry date. You decide when your staff take it again.
They can ask for it again by email on the "Lost my link" page, as long as they gave an email address when they started.
This is PHW training with a certificate of completion. It is not an accredited qualification, so it is for you to decide whether it is enough for your business.