Regulatory Agencies
Chemical products that destroy most bacteria (excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
What are disinfectants?
A mechanical process using soap and water or detergent that can remove a vast majority of pathogens.
What is cleaning?
Harmful microorganisms that cause disease or infection in the human body.
What are pathogenic bacteria?
This cleaning agent should never mixed with bleach.
What is detergent?
This is one of the most important actions you can take to prevent the spreading of germs from one person to another.
What is hand washing?
These exist to protect beauty professionals and their customer’s health and safety, and include licensing agencies, state boards, commissions, and health departments.
What are state agencies?
The transmission of pathogens through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
What is direct transmission?
These are capable of replication only through taking over the host cell's reproductive function.
What are viruses?
Sterilization destroys all microbial life, including spores, and can be achieved through the use of this.
What is an autoclave?
All electrical appliances and tools should be stored safely when in proximity to this.
What is water?
This federal agency registers all types of disinfectants sold in the U.S.
What is the EPA?
Large particles that do not stay suspended in the air for long and usually, wearing a mask can prevent transmission.
What are respiratory droplets?
What are biofilms?
Disinfectants can be harmful if absorbed through the skin because they call under the category of these.
What are pesticides?
Your first action if you accidentally cut a client.
What is stop the service?
Created as part of the U.S. Department of Labor, this federal agency regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in their workplace.
What is OSHA?
Caused by pathogenic organisms that enter the body.
What is infectious disease?
This bacteria is among the most common bacteria to affect humans and is responsible for food poisoning, MRSA, toxic shock syndrome, and flesh-eating disease.
What is staphylococci?
Implements should be left to soak in this disinfectant is commonly used in the beauty industry on no porous surfaces for ten minutes.
What is quaternary ammonium compounds?
As a beauty professional, you should be aware of your environment so that you can eliminate these.
What are potential hazards?
Written by both federal and state legislatures to determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines for regulatory agencies to make rules.
What are laws?
Disinfectants are not capable of killing these.
What are bacterial spores?
The bacteria linked to pedicure bowls in recent years.
What is mycobacterium?
A form of formaldehyde with a high pH and can damage the skin and eyes.
What are phenolic disinfectants?
Coming in contact with broken skin, blood, bodily fluids, and other potentially infectious materials that are a result of the performance of a worker’s duties.
What is an exposure incident?