Unit Aim
The aim of this unit is to provide Learners with the knowledge, understanding and skills to work safely in a salon environment.
Unit Content
1 Understand hygiene, health, and safety in a salon environment
- Therapist/stylist responsibilities
- Employer’s health and safety responsibilities
- Behaviour and conduct in a salon environment
- Standards of professional personal presentation and hygiene
- Importance of professional personal presentation and hygiene
- Hazards and risks
- Hazards that present a risk to health in a salon:
- ~Environmental
- ~Equipment
- ~Chemicals
- ~Hygiene
- Purpose of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Different services
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE
- Storage
2 Be able to maintain hygiene, health, and safety practices
- Minimise the risk of harm or injury to self and others:
- ~Electricity at work
- ~Manual handling
- ~Towels
- ~Reporting of injuries
- ~Control measures for hazardous substances
- ~Product storage
- Disposal of waste
- Hazards
- Work area:
- ~Workstation
- ~Equipment
- ~Disinfection
- ~Access around work area
3 Know the principles of infection control
- Principles of hygiene and infection control
- Hygienic and safe working practices:
- Methods used to clean tools and equipment
- Infection control techniques:
- ~Tidying
- ~Sanitisation
- ~Disinfection
- ~Sterilisation
- Different types of waste
- Disposal of different types of salon waste
4 Be able to promote hygiene and infection control
- Minimise the risk of cross-infection and cross-infestation
5 Know how to follow emergency procedures
- Named emergency personnel
- Procedures for dealing with emergencies:
- ~Accidents
- ~First aid
- ~Fire evacuation
- Correct use of firefighting equipment for different types of fire
- Location
- Extinguishers:
- ~Water
- ~ Foam spray
- ~ Powder
- ~ Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas
- ~ Wet chemical
- ~ Fire alarm
- Dangers of the incorrect use of firefighting equipment on different types of fires
- Importance for reporting and recording accidents
- Procedure for reporting and recording accidents
