Roles & Responsibilities
This is the primary duty of a sober monitor at an event.
What is ensuring the safety of all event attendees?
The first step a sober monitor should take if they see someone intoxicated and at risk of harm.
What is approach the person and assess the situation?
These should be visible to everyone entering and exiting an event.
What are the sober monitors?
What is intoxication?
You notice someone walking unsteadily and holding multiple drinks. This is what you should do.
What is approach them and offer water or check if they need assistance?
This is ratio for the number of sober monitors required for an event.
What is 1 sober monitor for every 15 guests?
A sober monitor should provide this service for someone too intoxicated to make it home safely.
What is arrange transportation (i.e. Uber, Lyft, walking them home)?
What are BYOB events and Third-Party Vendor events?
This is what you should do if someone shows up to your event with alcohol already intoxicated.
What is refuse them entry and ensure they get home safely?
A guest is trying to drive home after drinking. This is what you should do.
What is stop them and arrange for safe transportation?
Sober monitors should be positioned at these locations to maintain oversight of an event.
What are entrances, exits, alcohol distribution area, and high-traffic areas?
If someone refuses assistance but appears intoxicated, the sober monitor should do this.
What is keep a close watch and involve another sober monitor or chapter leader, if necessary?
This is the number of drinks someone can typically process per hour.
What is one standard drink per hour?
This physical sign is a warning that someone has had too much to drink and might need medical attention.
What is vomiting?
A guest shows up to an event intoxicated, but they get let in anyway because “they’ve been worse.” After about 30 minutes you hear that someone has passed out and is unresponsive. This is what you should do.
What is call 911 and call Campus Safety? What is shut the event down and ask everyone but chapter members to leave?
True or False: A sober monitor is allowed to consume alcohol as long as they stop two hours before the beginning of an event.
What is false?
A sober monitor's responsibility in handling a conflict or fight is to choose one of these three ways to intervene.
What is direct, delegate, or distract? (Goal is de-escalation and calling for help, if necessary)
This helps ensure that only invited or approved individuals are allowed into events with alcohol, with the goal of reducing risk.
What is a guest list?
Someone who is extremely intoxicated might exhibit this behavioral sign, such as becoming overly emotional and then really aggressive.
What are irregular mood swings?
A guest is stumbling and slurring their speech and has made their way to a part of the house that's off limits. This is what you should do.
What is check in with them and ask them to sit down, offer water, and continue monitoring their behaviors, and intervene, if necessary?
This is the the document/policy that sober monitors should be familiar with before any event with alcohol.
What is the chapter's event risk management or social event policy?
If someone has passed out due to alcohol consumption, the sober monitor should do this immediately.
What is place them in the recovery position and call 911 or Campus Safety?
This strategy can help ensure people at your event pace their alcohol consumption.
What is offering water and food throughout the event?
Rapid breathing and irregular heartbeat after consuming alcohol might indicate this life-threatening condition.
What is alcohol poisoning?
A chapter member admits to you that they've taken both alcohol and drugs and now is feeling extremely unwell. This is your course of action.
What is seek medical help immediately, monitor their vital signs, and keep them calm and awake until help arrives?