8: Maintaining Compliance

Maintaining Compliance

Once an establishment has become RAMP-certified, it’s up to management to maintain compliance by observing the following:

• If the owner or manager who completed the Owner/Manager Training changes, the new (or another) owner or manager has 60 days to complete training.
• If the number of server/seller-trained employees falls below 50 percent, additional employees must be trained within 60 days.
• New employee orientation must be completed within 30 days of the employee’s hire date (it is recommended that the orientation be completed on or before the first day of employment as a member of the licensee’s alcohol service staff).
• All new employees must be added to the alcohol service staff roster.
• The licensee must maintain posting of signs at all times.

Note: Failure to maintain these guidelines may void the establishment’s certification.

Benefits To The Licensee Include:

• Knowledgeable, well-trained alcohol service staff and management.
• Recognition as a responsible licensee in your community.
• Possible liquor liability insurance discount.
• Less likelihood of dram shop liability.
• Possible reduction in the fines and penalties issued by an Administrative Law Judge to the licensee for serving a minor or a visibly intoxicated patron, as long as the licensee was in compliance at the time of the violation and had no citations for either of those two violations in the previous four years.

Slide 8: Maintaining Compliance