Life Skills/Professional Image
The moral principles by which we live and work.
Ethics
Communication with a client that determines what the client's needs are and how to achieve the desired results.
Client Consultation
Regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the work place.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Transmission of Pathogens through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Direct Transmission
Also known as communicable disease; disease that is capable of being spread from one person to another.
Contagious Disease
Daily maintenance and cleanliness by practicing good healthful habits.
Personal Hygiene
Immunity that is developed after overcoming a disease, through inoculation or through exposure to natural allergens.
Acquired Immunity
Showing no symptoms or signs of infection.
Asymptomatic
A mechanical process using soap and water to remove all visible dirt, debris and many disease-causing germs.
Cleaning
Contact with non-intact skin, blood, body fluid, or other potentially infectious materials, which is the result of the performance of an employee's duties.
Exposure Incident
Communication expressed by body language, eye contact, facial expressions and gestures.
Nonverbal Communication
Substances that kill or slow the growth of bacteria and other microorganisms.
Antibiotics
Disease causing microorganisms carried in the body by blood or body fluids, such as hepatitis and HIV.
Bloodborne Pathogens
Chemical process that uses specific products to destroy harmful organisms on environmental surfaces.
Disinfection
Capable of destroying molds and fungi.
Fungicidal
The conscious act of planning your life, instead of just letting things happen.
Game Plan
Immunity that is partly inherited and partly developed through healthy living.
Natural Immunity
Registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the United States.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Transmission of blood or body fluids through contact with an intermediate object.
Indirect Transmission
The ability of a product to produce the intended effect.
Efficacy
The impression projected by a person engaged in any profession, consisting of outward appearance and conduct exhibited in the workplace.
Professional Image
The act of sharing information between two people (or groups of people) so that the information is successfully understood.
Effective Communication
Agencies that exist to protect beauty professionals' and their customers' health and safety during services.
State Regulatory Agencies
The methods used to eliminate or reduce the transmission of infectious organisms from one individual to another.
Infection Control
The process the completely destroys ALL microbial life, including spores.
Sterilization