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
