How Breweries Can Build Mutual Safety with Vulnerable Neighbours

Breweries are often located with unavoidable public health and safety crises on their doorsteps. While governments struggle to find the answers to toxic unregulated drug supplies and housing precarity, small business communities are learning how to build mutual safety with people at risk of drug poisoning or experiencing houselessness. Meanwhile, people with other marginalized identities are increasingly being targeted by hate. Against this backdrop, how can breweries help ensure the safety of their neighbours, customers, operations, and staff?

Key Takeaways

The goal of this presentation is to allow brewers and those who are adjacent to the brewing industry to learn how we can work together to make safer spaces for those who are affected by the drug crisis. It will also help by giving tips, definitions, and things we can do as a community to help those we work with, interact with, and live around. Removing the stigma is the first step in being able to assist, learn and grow. Together.

co-presented with Euan Thomson