By TADD (Teens Against Drinking and Driving
FACTS ABOUT DRINKING
(1) Drinking coffee after alcohol consumption may make you feel more awake, but you’re NO LESS IMPAIRED.
(2) A bottle of beer 355 ML = a shot 45 ML = A glass of wine 150 ML
(3) Designate a Driver BEFORE the Party Begins!
(4) Alcohol actually increases your susceptibility to cold and hypothermia.
(5) Alcohol slows your reaction time …STAY SHARP!
(6) Over half of the snowmobile fatalities in Manitoba involved alcohol!
(7) Eating while drinking slows the absorption of alcohol; IT DOES NOT stop the process of intoxication.
(8) Only time will overcome the effects of alcohol. Fresh air and dancing DO NOT change the rate at which alcohol is metabolized by the liver.
(9) In general, 40% of all fatalities, 20% of all injuries and 10% of all vehicle and property damage resulting from motor vehicle crashes in Manitoba are found to be ALCOHOL RELATED!
IMPAIRED DRIVING FACTS
(1) On average, 4.5 Canadians are killed and over 125 Canadians are injured DAILY in alcohol related crashes. (Transport Canada)
(2) Direct and indirect costs of alcohol related crashes are estimated to be $7.52 billion annually. (Research Report – Addiction (1998) 93(7) 991-1006)
(3) 70,587 charges of impaired driving were made in 1998. (Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, 1998)
(4) Approximately 40% of all traffic fatalities are alcohol related. (Traffic Injury Research Foundation)
(5) The Traffic Injury Foundation estimates there are 4.5 million impaired drivers on Canada’s roads every month.
(6) Impaired driving is the single leading criminal cause of death in Canada.
Other Options To Travel When Impaired
Call A Cab
Take Transit (bus, train etc.)
Call a Friend or your Parents. Even if it is 3AM they will be glad you called them!
Plan Ahead. If you know there may be alcohol involved in your outing, have a planned way home.
Use a Designated Driver. This is someone who plans Not to drink and will take you home.
Walk but not alone.
Sleep over.
Stay in a hotel.
Take Transit (bus, train etc.)
Call a Friend or your Parents. Even if it is 3AM they will be glad you called them!
Plan Ahead. If you know there may be alcohol involved in your outing, have a planned way home.
Use a Designated Driver. This is someone who plans Not to drink and will take you home.
Walk but not alone.
Sleep over.
Stay in a hotel.
How Bartenders And A Host Can Prevent Impaired Driving
Michael Root
I was talking to a someone a few years ago about the seriousness of drunk driving in the nigtclub & bar industry. He told me three things that stuck with me and convinced me that, as a bartender and by being an active part of this industry, I am also an active part of the problem of drinking and driving.
40-50% of all drivers killed on Canadian roads were impaired at the time of the accident. (These people would probably be alive if they hadn’t been drinking and driving.)
Half of all alcohol related traffic accidents occur between 11 pm and 3 pm. (Last call)
In North America it is estimated that 1-5 drivers has been drinking and 1 in 10 is legally impaired on any Friday or Saturday night. (Our biggest nights...next time you’re driving on a Friday or Saturday night, start counting cars and do the math.)
I don’t know where he got these statistics, but his points and mine are:
Drunk driving is a serious problem.
As a bartender, server, bar manager etc. We are involved.
We can do something about it.
ALCOHOL AWARENESS - WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Ways to help prevent drunk driving:
Suggest that the patron leave his or her car keys with the manager, who will ensure that the car is not towed away.
Offer to call a cab.
Offer to call a friend or relative who will agree to drive the customer home.
Encourage sober friends to drive the guest home.
Promote a designated driver program.
Install a taxi phone and/or have parking stalls reserved outside the main door for them.
Promote the safe ride program offered in your city...or start your own.
Encourage staff awareness.
If the patron refuses all of the above suggestions and still insists that he is not too intoxicated to drive home, inform your manager of the efforts you have made to provide alternative transportation. Your manager might intervene and inform the patron that the police may have to be called. This can be done anonymously, but this threat must be made with the full intention of following through if necessary.
WHY SHOULD WE GO TO ALL THIS TROUBLE TO PREVENT DRINKING AND DRIVING?
MORAL OBLIGATION
As a bartender or server you are involved and you have a moral obligation to take care of the people you serve and profit from. When people drink, they lose the ability to make good decisions as well as their reflexes and you help them get that way. You also have an obligation to protect innocent people from any harm the customer you over served might cause before he/she sobers up. A little effort on your part can really make a difference. How would you feel if one of your customers drove drunk and killed a woman and her baby?
LEGAL OBLIGATION
If you don’t agree that you have a moral obligation (and some people don’t), read on. In North America when a lawsuit is filed against a bar or restaurant and over service is the claim, the bartender or server will be personally liable also. It happens. Check your local liquor laws or ask your police. YOU can be held PERSONALLY responsible.
I was talking to a someone a few years ago about the seriousness of drunk driving in the nigtclub & bar industry. He told me three things that stuck with me and convinced me that, as a bartender and by being an active part of this industry, I am also an active part of the problem of drinking and driving.
40-50% of all drivers killed on Canadian roads were impaired at the time of the accident. (These people would probably be alive if they hadn’t been drinking and driving.)
Half of all alcohol related traffic accidents occur between 11 pm and 3 pm. (Last call)
In North America it is estimated that 1-5 drivers has been drinking and 1 in 10 is legally impaired on any Friday or Saturday night. (Our biggest nights...next time you’re driving on a Friday or Saturday night, start counting cars and do the math.)
I don’t know where he got these statistics, but his points and mine are:
Drunk driving is a serious problem.
As a bartender, server, bar manager etc. We are involved.
We can do something about it.
ALCOHOL AWARENESS - WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Ways to help prevent drunk driving:
Suggest that the patron leave his or her car keys with the manager, who will ensure that the car is not towed away.
Offer to call a cab.
Offer to call a friend or relative who will agree to drive the customer home.
Encourage sober friends to drive the guest home.
Promote a designated driver program.
Install a taxi phone and/or have parking stalls reserved outside the main door for them.
Promote the safe ride program offered in your city...or start your own.
Encourage staff awareness.
If the patron refuses all of the above suggestions and still insists that he is not too intoxicated to drive home, inform your manager of the efforts you have made to provide alternative transportation. Your manager might intervene and inform the patron that the police may have to be called. This can be done anonymously, but this threat must be made with the full intention of following through if necessary.
WHY SHOULD WE GO TO ALL THIS TROUBLE TO PREVENT DRINKING AND DRIVING?
MORAL OBLIGATION
As a bartender or server you are involved and you have a moral obligation to take care of the people you serve and profit from. When people drink, they lose the ability to make good decisions as well as their reflexes and you help them get that way. You also have an obligation to protect innocent people from any harm the customer you over served might cause before he/she sobers up. A little effort on your part can really make a difference. How would you feel if one of your customers drove drunk and killed a woman and her baby?
LEGAL OBLIGATION
If you don’t agree that you have a moral obligation (and some people don’t), read on. In North America when a lawsuit is filed against a bar or restaurant and over service is the claim, the bartender or server will be personally liable also. It happens. Check your local liquor laws or ask your police. YOU can be held PERSONALLY responsible.
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