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  • RSA - Drunks a threat to bar staff

    Nightclub bar staff say they are caught between a rock and a hard place when serving alcohol to drunk clubbers.

    Despite training in Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA), most bar staff disregard intoxication levels of customers because if they cut off their drinking they stood to lose their hours from 'profit hungry' club owners or face physical violence from the drinkers said Liquor, H

  • Food Safety - Kids Learn Bad Habits

    One-quarter of Queensland centres to not get kids to wash their hands after toileting and before eating, while one-third of centres have potentially dangerous items accessible by children. 
     

    The high incidence of failure to wash hands is worrying, as children are dubbed as "superspreaders" for their ability to rapidly transmit germs from child to child through sneezing, co

  • Food Safety - Bakery Breaches Continue

    Breaches of Food Safety Act - The Maurita Authentic Italian Bakery and Patisserie at Breandan Drive was fined $12,500 last September for beaching the code by using dirty and rusting cooking equipment, storing unsealed food in the coolroom at the wrong temperature and having 'live pests' around the deep fryer.


    The business was also summoned to court twice in 2007 and ordered to pay $

  • Food Safety - Scores on Doors of Gold Coast Eateries

    The Gold Coast City Council is considering falling in line with 'score of the door' schemes being introduced in Brisbane, Sydney and Logan.   A scheme begun by the NSW government this week requires eateries to display a cleanliness score of A, B or C.

    Brisbane City Council will later this year introduce a five-star rating, with eateries achieving three or more stars invited to

  • Food Safety - Dodgy eateries escape the net

    In comparison, the NSW Food Authority's website has published details of more than 600 in less than a year.

    Queensland Health established the website in 2007 to allow diners access to reports of eating places found guilty of breaching the state Food Act.

    Queensland Consumers Association secretary Max Howard said that the NSW website publishes both prosecutions and on the spot fi

  • RSG & CLO-Queenslanders big loosers on pokies

    Biggest Losers - Crisis brings pokies record...

    Regions with highest pokie losses in August & September 2008

    • Brisbane      $72.5m
    • Gold Coast   $49.9m
    • Logan          $16.8m
    • Ipswich        $12.2m
    • Cairns          $11.8m
    • Maroochy     $11.7m
    • Caboolture   $11.1m

    ENTIRE STATE $327M

    See attached PDF for further details.

  • Mandatory RSA Training

    Staff members include bartenders, glass collectors, floor hostesses, room service staff.

    In Queensland staff members employed prior to 1 January 2009 and still with the same employer will have until 30 June 2010 to complete the required training.

    Staff members employed after 1 January 2009 will be required to complete the training within 30 days of commencing employment.

    RS

  • RSA -Venues always to blame despite ruling, says licensee group

    RSA - Pubs and clubs will always get the blame for alcohol fuelled incidents despite the High Court ruling publicans have no general duty of care to protecrt drunken patrons, says a Surfers Paradise licensee.

    Surfers Paradise Licensed Venues Association boss Lino Girardi said licensed venues were always first to have the finger pointed at them if there was an accident or attack resultin

  • RSA - Teens smarten up for fake IDs to buy booze

    Under aged teenagers have been caught dressing up in suits and ties to create "believable" fake IDs to buy alcohol for the start of Schoolies Festival.

    An invesitation by liquor licensing officers has uncovered a racket involving more than 160 fake IDs which have been circulating in Brisbane.

    More than 35 teenagers have been caught and fined for using the fake 18+ cards, learner

  • Bakery Breaches Continue

    The Maurita Authentic Italian Bakery and Patisserie at Breandan Drive was fined $12,500 last September for beaching the code by using dirty and rusting cooking equipment, storing unseal food in the coolroom at the wrong temperature and haveing 'live pests' around the deep fryer.

    The business was also summoned to court twice in 2007 and ordered to pay $11,500 in fines for similar breaches.