Competency Based Qualification

Salon Hygiene, Health and Safety

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

Recommended Text

<div> <ul style="list-style-type: none; padding: 0;"> <li> Gittens, S. et al. (2015). <em>Hairdressing for African and Curly Hair Types from a Cross-Cultural Perspective</em>. 3rd ed. Hampshire: Cengage Learning. <br> <a href="https://amzn.to/4iJhRXg" target="_blank" class="button">Buy on Amazon</a> </li> <li> Nordmann, L. (2017). <em>Beauty Therapy: The Foundations, Level 2</em>. 7th ed. Cengage Learning EMEA. <br> <a href="https://amzn.to/3YozxjK" target="_blank" class="button">Buy on Amazon</a> </li> <li> Palmer, L., & Perkins, L. (2012). <em>L2 Diploma in Hairdressing Candidate Handbook (including Barbering Units)</em>. 4th ed. London: Pearson. <br> <a href="https://amzn.to/4k2T9T4" target="_blank" class="button">Buy on Amazon</a> </li> <li> Read, A., & Church, C. (2012). <em>Hairdressing Level 2: The Interactive Textbook</em>. Abingdon: Routledge. <br> <a href="https://amzn.to/3EwvBH6" target="_blank" class="button">Buy on Amazon</a> </li> </ul> </div>

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