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Responsible Alcohol Sales and Server Training (RASS)

RASS Training is Designed to:

• Familiarize owners and employees of alcohol-licensed establishments with state liquor laws. The training specifically addresses the Georgia Dram Shop Law—the state law that prohibits businesses from selling alcohol to minors or intoxicated persons; and
• Increase the skills, knowledge and awareness of individuals engaged in the sale and/or service of alcohol, including helping alcohol servers learn how to recognize fake driver’s licenses and IDs, how to tell whether bar patrons have had too much to drink and how to stop serving disorderly, intoxicated customers.

• A computer with an internet connection; and
• A liquor license number. [Owners and managers can set up accounts for themselves and their employees based on an establishment’s liquor license number.]

Training Access and Availability
The training program is available on-line seven days a week, 24 hours a day. It is convenient and easily accessible from any computer.

Estimated completion time for the training program is two hours, and the training can be completed in increments. A record of every person who completes and passes the training is stored electronically and is available to employers. The training is transferable from one place of employment to another.

Collaboration and Funding
GT SMART works in partnership with local and state officials, public safety departments, the hospitality industry, and the community. Together they are using these and other resources to promote an environment of responsible alcohol consumption. Funding for the RASS Training is made possible through a grant by the State of Georgia’s Children and Youth Coordinating Council.

RASS Training - Getting Started

RASS Technical Support

Results - Survey of Alcohol Servers Who Completed RASS

RASS User Survery Results (PDF) >
Summary - In 2006, a 9-question survey was developed for the purposes of this study. After conducting a review of the literature on the subject of alcohol server training, staff on the GT SMART project constructed questions that were tested with various audiences in order to access their validity and reliability. After review and revisions were complete, the electronic survey was mailed to addresses where participants had been registered for the RASS training program. In 2007, the same survey was sent again. Anyone that had participated in the previous User Survey (June, 2006) was asked to disregard this request. In some cases, multiple persons used the same email address. Participants were given two weeks to complete and return the anonymous survey.

Findings from the RASS training survey revealed that 95% of respondents reported being more familiar with Georgia liquor laws. Ninety percent said they were more confident in their ability to recognize whether a customer has had too much to drink and equally important, 95 % reported having the skills necessary to stop serving disorderly, intoxicated customers, and that they were better able to recognize fake driver's licenses and ID's . Nearly all respondents (85%) rated the RASS training as excellent or good . As a result of the RASS training, 84% of survey respondents said that their perception of the establishment for which they work had been positively affected. Eighty-three percent of respondents said they would support legislation mandating server training programs for establishment managers. The vast majority (78%) said they would support legislation in Georgia mandating training programs for alcohol servers. And nearly as many, (75%) said they had a greater knowledge of the Georgia Dram Shop Law.