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Employee Health & Safety

Employees are the most valuable resource at every brewery. Keeping your employees safe and healthy should be your top priority. The resources in the section include information on mental health and fitness, sexual harassment prevention and investigations, brewery ergonomics, healthy staff drinking policies, and more.

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Brewing Resilience: Broaching Tough Conversations Around Burnout

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Holly Haslam, Katie Muggli

This seminar addresses brewery burnout for all staff levels, offering insights and practical strategies. Learn to recognize burnout, understand its significance, and engage in difficult conversations about it and gain tools for addressing burnout effectively within yourself and your team.Read More

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Brewing a Culture of Wellness: Nurturing Sobriety and Promoting Responsible Drinking in the Craft Beer Industry

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Meagen Anderson, Benjamin Eberly, Leigh Gall, Mark LaFaro

In this industry professionals share personal struggles and discuss topics including alcohol use disorder, fostering open conversations, and implementing initiatives for healthy drinking habits. The aim is to cultivate balance, support, and wellbeing in brewery culture.Read More

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Unheard-of Safety Risk: Occupational Noise Exposure

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Hal McConnellogue

This seminar dives into occupational noise exposure for the brewing industry, highlighting how to create a hearing conservation program, noise monitoring, audiometric testing, hearing protection and the responsibility a company has for safeguarding their employee's hearing health.Read More

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Ergonomics and Stretching: Crafting Safety, One Move at a Time

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Nicole Lavery

Brewing is a physically demanding occupation. Understanding the importance of proper body mechanics and environmental design during brewing processes is vital in ensuring a safe work environment. Learn practical and simple ways to incorporate ergonomics and avoid serious injuries at your brewery.Read More

Access the Infinite Ingredient Wellbeing Portal brewing equipment with infinite ingredient logo

Access the Infinite Ingredient Wellbeing Portal

Infinite Ingredient and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation have launched the Workplace Wellbeing Portal to support craft brewery employees.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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Navigating Known Hazards: A People Leaders’ Summary Guide brewery staff serving beer

Navigating Known Hazards: A People Leaders’ Summary Guide

A summary of hazards for people leaders based on insights from a Collab Hour event with HR and mental health professionals.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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Creating a Culture of Wellness
The New Brewer: THRIVE Issue

Creating a Culture of Wellness

Cari Ladd

Considering that most people spend a majority of their waking hours at work, employers, managers, and co-workers are in a unique position to identify signs of burnout.

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