Health guidelines for personal care & body art industries
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Foreward
The principle purpose of this set of guidelines is to assist those involved in the personal care and body art industry to comply with the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 2001 by providing information on: (1) how infection can be associated with the procedures employed in the industry, and (2) precautions to protect clients and employees. The guidelines are designed around a risk management approach to the transmission of infection from client to client, client to operator, and operator to client. Risk management involves an analysis (identification) of potential hazards, the controls policies/procedures) required to minimise the hazard, and the corrective action to be taken if the control (action) does not achieve its aim of preventing or minimising the transmission of infection.
The guidelines also provide information on general matters that may be useful to the industry in performing its practices, and on infection control in general. Some personal care and body art body industry practices are not specifically covered by the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 2001, but these guidelines include information on general infection control and prevention to assist these practices.
These guidelines are not intended to replace industry-specific guidelines for personal care and body art body premises. Proprietors and operators should also consult with their professional organisations and other organisations relevant to aspects of their business. These guidelines should be used as a guide to best practice and as a reference tool for people associated with the industry, including environmental health officers. A 'Business self-summary' form is provided on page v for crossreferencing purposes.
Contents
The guidelines are divided into the following five parts.
Part A: General information on infection (transmission and prevention); regulations related to the establishment of business premises; occupational health and safety issues; and details on how to clean, disinfect and sterilise instruments and equipment used to perform personal care and body art industry procedures.
Part B: A consideration of the personal care and body art industry under five general headings:
- beauty therapy procedures, including waxing, facials and nail treatments
- physical therapies, including massage, solariums and spas
- hairdressing
- body art, including tattooing and body piercing
- colonic irrigation.
The Department of Human Services, in conjunction with the Chinese Medicine Registration Board, is developing separate infection control guidelines for acupuncture. Existing departmental standards of practice for acupuncture are to be followed until the review is completed.
Part C: General information on risk analysis and management, to assist proprietors and operators to develop policies and procedures to improve infection control and prevention practices. Appendix 2 contains risk analysis tables with examples.
Part D: Glossary
Part E: Appendixes
Appendix 1: Extract from the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 2001
Appendix 2: Risk analysis charts
Appendix 3: Records/pro-formas
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Introduction and Part A
General requirements (214kb, pdf)
Part B
Industry-specific requirements (147kb, pdf)
Part C, D and E
Part C: Risk management; Part D: Glossary; and Part E: Appendices (150kb, pdf)
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Health guidelines for personal care & body art industries (444kb, pdf)
Health information sheets for clients
Health information sheets for clients have been developed to assist proprietors of skin penetration premises in complying with the requirements of the Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 2001.
Changes to the Regulations in 2004 require proprietors of businesses undertaking skin penetration procedures (including tattooing and body piercing) to provide information about the transmission of infectious diseases associated with the process.
Information sheets have also been developed for some industries not covered by the Regulations but for which the procedures may present an infection risk. These provide information to clients about the transmission of disease and complement the Guidelines for Personal Care and Body Art Industries.
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Colonic irrigation (36kb, pdf)
Manicure, pedicure and facials (34kb, pdf)