The paper describes community safety action projects in three cities, and reports some results. The projects attempted to improve the safety of the environments in and around licensed venues in the cities' entertainment areas. The projects were replicas of the safety action intervention model developed in the tourist resort of Surfers Paradise, to determine how robust the model is when applied in diverse communities, to improve understanding of change process and to strengthen the scientific evidence for a causal impact of the intervention on crime and violence. The safety action model proved to be robust as a technique for reducing alcohol-related crime and violence, although not all the specific techniques used in Surfers Paradise appeared to be essential. The tasks remaining include refining the model through more detailed research on the situational factors that cause violence, through a better analysis of the community processes that make for successful implementation and through improved understanding of what "responsive regulation" means for the retail alcohol industry. Table, references