Crafting a Culture of Safety and Respect: Active Bystander Intervention for People in Hospitality

As part of the commitment to hospitality, bars, restaurants, clubs, breweries, distilleries, and other alcohol-serving spaces can build guest satisfaction and loyalty through improved safety. Establishments where staff are treated with dignity and respect also have better performing teams and lower turnover. 

Safe Bars Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that helps alcohol-serving spaces create safe, welcoming, and respectful environments for their patrons and staff. Our innovative programming provides the foundation and catalyst for necessary change in the hospitality and nightlife industries.

Join this session led by Safe Bars Inc. to learn to recognize and respond to sexual violence and other forms of aggression among staff and patrons. This training works to:

• Increase staff understanding of the scope and causes of unwanted sexual aggression;
• Increase staff recognition of problematic behavior along the continuum of sexual and relationship violence;
• Provide staff with the skills to respond to such behaviors safely and appropriately,  whether by intervening in the moment, or when asked for help;
• Actively promote establishments that adopt safety standards.

This training is 2.5 hours long, trauma-informed, target-centered, evidence-based, experiential, and participatory. The training is live and will not be recorded.

About Safe Bars Inc.

Safe Bars Inc. is a DC/Baltimore-based nonprofit organization founded in 2013 whose mission is to prevent sexual harassment and assault in alcohol-serving spaces by teaching active bystander and de-escalation skills to hospitality staff, ultimately changing industry culture. Safe Bars serves communities locally, nationally, and internationally.

The Safe Bars Executive Director, Amie Ward, has over 20 years experience in all facets of the hospitality industry. Safe Bars has a team of 16 trainers across the country, all of them hospitality professionals. To learn more and discuss scheduling, please contact info@safebars.org.