Fifteen bars, and clubs in Copenhagen are making an effort to live up to certain health, safety and security criteria in a bid to encourage safer drinking and improve the quality if nightlife for customers in the capital. The ‘Safe City’ project or ‘Tryg By’ builds on similar schemes in Manchester and Liverpool, by encouraging pubs and bars to have complete training in first aid, conflict management and possess a strategy on alcohol and drug policy that encourages a safer drinking/partying environment.
Gerry Stimson, Executive Director of the International Harm Reduction Association, expressed that the initiative is for all people that want to enjoy Copenhagen’s nightlife; “People want to drink and have a fun night out, so it is about making it safer, both for the people who are drunk, and for those who are not drunk”.
IHRA has been involved in promoting alcohol harm reduction in Copenhagen since 2006 through a demonstration project entitled ‘Alcohol and the City’. The project, funded over three years, is a multi-city project aimed at demonstrating how practical and realistic alcohol harm reduction interventions can be designed, implemented and managed at a city level by focusing on server training, bar certification and local media campaigns
