It is critical that you take a risk-based approach to managing your licensed premises and develop harm minimisation strategies and procedures specific to your business. This is even more important in potentially higher risk environments to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, and your business as far as reasonably practicable.

In this lesson, we will discuss the steps that you would take to identify, analyse, control, monitor and review risks that are specific to your business. We will explain the risk management process register, and show how your risk assessment will form the basis of your plan of management. 

Remember, risk management is never finished. New risks will emerge and existing risks will disappear. You need to stay on top of it! 

At the end of lesson 4: Minimising risk of alcohol-related harms in your business, you will be able to:

• outline the process of identifying and managing risks 

• outline possible strategies for controlling risks, including: 

  • environmental design 

  • security considerations 

  • proactive RSA measures 

  • building relationships within your community, and 

  • tools and templates.

• outline best practice strategies that might be useful within your business.