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Tattoos & Piercings can be dangerous if done in unsafe
settings
Personal service settings are places where piercing, tattooing,
hairstyling, manicure and pedicure, waxing, threading, electrolysis and laser
hair removal, facial treatments and other aesthetic services are offered to the
public.
Health Unit Public Health Inspectors have the mandate to ensure that all
personal service providers carry out proper infection control techniques.
Special attention must be given to those services where equipment, needles and
instruments contact the skin.
Proper cleaning, disinfection and sterilization will help to prevent
transmission of blood borne diseases such as Hepatitis B, C and HIV.
Records should be kept for a minimum of one year for tattooing and piercing
procedures and of accidental blood exposures.
For more information about personal services settings and the problems that can
occur, visit this link
www.healthunit.org/reportpub/board/2001/feb2001/page6.html.
Kweisi Douglas, BASc, CPHI(C), Public Health Inspector
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Health Unit Public Health Inspectors have the mandate to ensure
that all personal service providers carry out proper infection control
techniques.
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Leeds,
Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit -
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