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The Brewers Association creates several educational publications to be used as best practices by breweries, retailers, distributors, and beer lovers. These include manuals, guides, worksheets, templates, online training videos, and more.

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Working In the “Age of Rage” broken brown beer bottle white papers age of rage x

Working In the “Age of Rage”

This three-part guide will help you as an employer to create a safer working environment for your brewery employees.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewers Association Human Resources (HR) Committee seeks to provide our members with the tools needed to develop compliant HR strategies while building and maintaining stronger relationships with the teams they serve. Additionally, it is the goal of the HR Committee to bridge the gap between HR representatives, organizations, and the brewing community to promote open and honest communication leading to employee and organizational well-being.

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Contracting for Brewers: Insights and Best Practices stack of brewer contracts hop and malt x

Contracting for Brewers: Insights and Best Practices

The Brewers Association produced best practice guidance documents for contracting key supply chain materials and ingredients.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Supply Chain Subcommittee is concerned with the ingredients and materials that are used to brew and package craft beers. By monitoring hop and barley harvest, interacting with growers and examining packaging supplies, and monitoring glass and can markets, the Supply Chain Subcommittee works to ensure a stable marketplace and provide educational resources to the brewing community on best practices for sourcing and selecting ingredients and packaging materials to suit their beers.

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Employee Appreciation brewery workers tossing fresh hops in the air employee appreciation x

Employee Appreciation

It's crucial for employers to implement employee appreciation initiatives that are personal, consistent, inclusive, and safe!Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewers Association Human Resources (HR) Committee seeks to provide our members with the tools needed to develop compliant HR strategies while building and maintaining stronger relationships with the teams they serve. Additionally, it is the goal of the HR Committee to bridge the gap between HR representatives, organizations, and the brewing community to promote open and honest communication leading to employee and organizational well-being.

See HR Committee's Articles

Crafting a Training Program man working at computer with a beer in taproom x

Crafting a Training Program

Employee training and development are vital to your brewery's success and a key component of job satisfaction, engagement, and retention.Read More

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Human Resources Partner

Holly Haslam recently joined the Brewers Association as the Human Resources (HR) Partner. Originally from the Great Beer State of Michigan, she moved to Colorado in 2019 with her husband and dog. With a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Substance Abuse Prevention, Education, and Treatment from Central Michigan University, she went on to pursue her Master's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resource Management at the University of Northern Colorado. Additionally, Holly volunteers her time with the Boulder Area HR Association (BAHRA) as their Vice President of Programming. With experience introducing HR functions, employee engagement initiatives, and training and advancement programs to companies, she specializes in helping small organizations build systems that aid in employee professional development and retention. Holly utilizes the insight and experience she has gained working within small organizations to equip breweries with the knowledge and resources needed to take care of their most valuable assets—their people!

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5 Steps for Disaster Preparedness flashlight beam in the dark disaster preparedness x

5 Steps for Disaster Preparedness

This guide offers 5 simple steps for brewery and human resources leaders to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewers Association Human Resources (HR) Committee seeks to provide our members with the tools needed to develop compliant HR strategies while building and maintaining stronger relationships with the teams they serve. Additionally, it is the goal of the HR Committee to bridge the gap between HR representatives, organizations, and the brewing community to promote open and honest communication leading to employee and organizational well-being.

See HR Committee's Articles

Workplace Surveys: Employee Engagement woman taking survey in brewery back of house x

Workplace Surveys: Employee Engagement

Surveys allow employees to make their voices heard and allow leaders to make positive changes toward organizational success.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewers Association Human Resources (HR) Committee seeks to provide our members with the tools needed to develop compliant HR strategies while building and maintaining stronger relationships with the teams they serve. Additionally, it is the goal of the HR Committee to bridge the gap between HR representatives, organizations, and the brewing community to promote open and honest communication leading to employee and organizational well-being.

See HR Committee's Articles

Employment Classification Guide employment classification guide fresh golden beer and porter in dark taproom x

Employment Classification Guide

Misclassifying employees can have adverse impacts on employees and can lead to legal ramifications for your brewery.Read More

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Human Resources Partner

Holly Haslam recently joined the Brewers Association as the Human Resources (HR) Partner. Originally from the Great Beer State of Michigan, she moved to Colorado in 2019 with her husband and dog. With a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Substance Abuse Prevention, Education, and Treatment from Central Michigan University, she went on to pursue her Master's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Human Resource Management at the University of Northern Colorado. Additionally, Holly volunteers her time with the Boulder Area HR Association (BAHRA) as their Vice President of Programming. With experience introducing HR functions, employee engagement initiatives, and training and advancement programs to companies, she specializes in helping small organizations build systems that aid in employee professional development and retention. Holly utilizes the insight and experience she has gained working within small organizations to equip breweries with the knowledge and resources needed to take care of their most valuable assets—their people!

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Guide to Managing Relationships in the Workplace, Part II: Familial and Friend Relationships hazy craft beer in IPA glass guide to managing relationships x

Guide to Managing Relationships in the Workplace, Part II: Familial and Friend Relationships

In the Guide to Managing Relationships: Part II, we discuss the impact of hiring family and friends in your brewery.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewers Association Human Resources (HR) Committee seeks to provide our members with the tools needed to develop compliant HR strategies while building and maintaining stronger relationships with the teams they serve. Additionally, it is the goal of the HR Committee to bridge the gap between HR representatives, organizations, and the brewing community to promote open and honest communication leading to employee and organizational well-being.

See HR Committee's Articles
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