Regulatory Agencies & Rules
This federal agency regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
These single-celled microorganisms have both plant and animal characteristics.
What are bacteria?
A mechanical process using soap/detergent and water to remove all visible dirt, debris, and many germs.
What is cleaning?
Commonly known as Quats, these products are designed for nonporous surface disinfection in noncritical environments.
What are Quaternary Ammonium Compounds?
CDC guidelines requiring employers and employees to assume all human blood and body fluids are potentially infectious.
What are Standard Precautions?
This document, containing 16 standardized categories, details chemical hazards and handling instructions.
What is a Safety Data Sheet (SDS)?
A type of infectious staph bacteria that is highly resistant to conventional treatments such as antibiotics.
What is MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus)?
A chemical process for nonporous items that destroys most harmful organisms (except spores).
What is disinfecting?
Household bleach consists of 5.25 percent of this active chemical compound.
What is sodium hypochlorite?
PPE stands for this.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
This agency registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the United States.
This agency registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the United States.
Submicroscopic particles that infect and reside within biological cells, capable of replication only by taking over the host cell.
What is a virus?
The process that completely destroys all microbial life, including spores, typically using an autoclave.
What is sterilizing?
Chemical germicides formulated for use on human skin, regulated by the FDA.
What are antiseptics?
Contact with non-intact skin, blood, or body fluid resulting from an employee's performance of duties.
What is an exposure incident?
Written by federal and state legislatures, these establish the scope of practice and are also called statutes.
What are Laws?
Molds, mildews, and yeasts fall into this category of single-celled organisms.
What are fungi?
To properly disinfect multiuse nonporous tools, they must be completely submerged in liquid for this long (unless label says otherwise).
What is 10 minutes?
When diluting chemical disinfectants, you should ALWAYS add this to that to prevent foaming.
What is adding disinfectant concentrate to water?
Type of single-use gloves recommended as a strong alternative to latex to avoid widespread allergies.
What are nitrile gloves?
State agencies hold the authority to issue these penalties to both shop owners and beauty professionals for non-compliance.
What are warnings, fines, probation, suspension, or license revocation?
Microorganisms that adhere to surfaces and secrete a sticky, hard-to-penetrate protective coating.
What are biofilms?
Disinfectants must show these claims on their label to state specific pathogens killed when used correctly.
What are efficacy claims?
These tuberculocidal disinfectants have a very high pH, are known carcinogens, and can damage skin, eyes, plastics, and metals.
What are phenolic disinfectants (phenols)?
Term used for a person showing no symptoms or signs of infection despite carrying a virus or disease.
What is asymptomatic?