For pubs, bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels, off-licences and shops selling alcohol. Training and paperwork for anyone who works on a licensed premises where drug activity could occur, including door, bar and floor staff, and the DPS or premises licence holder who adopts and signs the drugs policy.
Stated as the underlying legislation sets it out, nothing more.
Section 8 makes it an offence for an occupier, or a person concerned in the management of premises, to knowingly permit the production, supply or use of controlled drugs on those premises. Knowingly permit includes turning a blind eye. The Licensing Act 2003 sets four licensing objectives, and the first is the prevention of crime and disorder. Drug activity on premises goes directly to that objective, and it is a common reason a premises licence is called in for review by the police. A review can add conditions, cut hours, remove the DPS or revoke the licence entirely.
Staff and door supervisors have no power to search anyone. A search is lawful only with consent as a condition of entry, carried out only by SIA licensed door supervisors, by a member of the same sex where at all possible, in view of CCTV, with a second member of staff present. If consent is refused the remedy is refusal of entry, not a search.
A documented drugs policy that staff actually follow, dated training records and a completed incident and seizure register are the evidence that an operator is managing the risk of drug activity on the premises rather than tolerating it, which goes directly to the prevention of crime and disorder licensing objective a review will test.
Policy, training, the knowledge test and the records a licence review will look for.
This pack is scoped to licensed premises: drugs on the premises. It does not cover food safety, fire safety or general workplace health and safety, which sit in PHW's separate safety pack range.
A licence review looks for a record that outlasts the shift the training happened on.
The pack keeps its own dated training records: who was trained, on what, the knowledge test result and the sign-off, backed by an assessment record and a premises verification statement. A candidate who completes the training and knowledge test is issued a certificate carrying a QR code. Scanning it, or looking the reference up directly, opens a live record showing who was trained, on what, and when: the same record a licensing officer, the police or your own management can check without asking you to find a filing cabinet.
Prices and buying for the drugs awareness pack are in the PHW shop.