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Licensee & Approved Manager Liquor Training study plan

Licensee & Approved Manager Liquor Training · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Liquor licensing

  • Map the licensing framework: identify who issues licences, what licence categories exist, and which conditions attach to each, writing a one-line summary per category

  • Define each key licensing term (licensee, approved manager, nominated person, premises, authorised hours) in your own words without looking at notes

  • List the statutory duties of a licensee and of an approved manager side by side, then mark which duties overlap and which are unique

  • Draft 20 flashcards covering licence application, variation, and transfer steps, sequencing each process correctly

Your checkpoint

A one-page licensing framework map plus 20 verified flashcards covering licence types, roles, and application processes

Week 2

Liquor licensing

  • Explain the grounds on which a licence can be suspended, cancelled, or refused, and rank them by severity

  • Trace the compliance and enforcement pathway from inspection to disciplinary action, naming each stage and who acts at it

  • Solve 15 scenario questions about breaches of licence conditions, writing the governing rule beside each answer

  • Identify record-keeping, signage, and notification obligations and convert them into a checklist an inspector would accept

Your checkpoint

A completed enforcement-pathway diagram with a 12-item compliance checklist and 15 solved scenario questions

Week 3

Liquor licensing & Sound regulation

  • Summarise the harm-minimisation principles underlying liquor law and connect each principle to a specific licence condition

  • Distinguish the offences of serving an intoxicated person, serving a minor, and permitting disorderly conduct, stating the elements of each

  • Apply refusal-of-service and incident-reporting procedures to three written scenarios and justify each decision

  • Draft the standard steps for checking age identification, including acceptable documents and what to do when proof is doubtful

Your checkpoint

Three written scenario responses on refusal of service and ID checking, each citing the relevant rule and the correct staff action

Week 4

Gaming

  • Define the core gaming vocabulary ( gaming machine, operator, licensee obligations, patron, exclusion) and produce a glossary of at least 15 terms

  • Outline the regulatory bodies and their split of responsibilities for gaming versus liquor on licensed premises

  • List operator obligations for machine operation, payout, and record-keeping, and group them by daily, weekly, and periodic tasks

  • Explain self-exclusion and exclusion-order procedures step by step from patron request to enforcement

Your checkpoint

A gaming glossary of 15+ terms plus a one-page operator-obligations table sorted by task frequency

Week 5

Gaming & Sound regulation

  • Describe the signs of problem gambling and match each sign to a required staff response

  • Explain the rules on advertising, promotions, and inducements to gamble, and identify three examples that would breach them

  • Apply gaming-specific incident procedures (disputed payout, machine malfunction, underage play) to written scenarios

  • Compare gaming-harm obligations with liquor-harm obligations and note where the same staff action satisfies both

Your checkpoint

A problem-gambling response guide listing at least six indicators, the matching staff action for each, and the escalation contact

Week 6

Training

  • Design a 30-minute induction session for new staff covering licensing basics, refusal of service, and incident reporting

  • Write three measurable learning objectives for each training topic using action verbs and an observable outcome

  • Build a short assessment (10 items) with an answer key that tests the induction content

  • Explain how training records must be kept and why they matter in a compliance inspection

Your checkpoint

A complete induction session plan with timed segments, learning objectives, a 10-item quiz, and an answer key

Week 7

Training & Sound regulation

  • Produce a one-page house policy on responsible service that a licensee could adopt, covering hours, intoxication, minors, and transport

  • Draft a conflict-de-escalation script for refusing service, including exact wording for the first refusal and the escalation

  • Create an incident report template capturing time, parties, observations, action taken, and witnesses

  • Deliver a five-minute practice briefing aloud on sound regulation duties and self-assess it against a checklist

Your checkpoint

An adopted-format house policy, a de-escalation script, and a completed incident report template

Week 8

Liquor licensing & Gaming & Training & Sound regulation

  • Complete a timed 60-question mixed mock exam across all four domains and score it against the key

  • Categorise every missed question by domain and root cause (unknown fact, misread, wrong rule applied)

  • Re-study only the weakest two domains using your flashcards and rewrite any incorrect card

  • Recite the ten rules you are most likely to forget, without notes, and correct yourself immediately

Your checkpoint

A scored mock exam with a written error log and a revised flashcard set targeting the two weakest domains

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 80% on a self-made 20-question licensing quiz and explain every wrong answer aloud without notes

Week 4: Explain the licensing and gaming regulatory split, and the top five operator obligations, in under five minutes with no reference material

Week 6: Deliver the 30-minute induction session to a practice listener and collect written feedback on clarity and accuracy

Week 8: Score 85% or higher on the timed 60-question mock exam with no domain below 75%