salon safety

Preventing Allergic Reactions

After month of receiving enhancements with no problems, your client develops redness and then swelling around her cuticles.

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Hepatitis C: What Are the Odds?

Risk factors for hepatitis: Having unprotected sex, sharing drug needles, administering tattoos or body piercing s with dirty needles ... and getting a pedicure? Not really.

Let’s Keep Salon Sanitation Simple, and Stick Together

Salons know that savvy consumers are wary of dirty salons and so they conduct their sanitation procedures with a great flourish.

Unsanitary Practices- or Unscrupulous Lawyers?

Nail salons and Industry observers are crying foul over a California consumer group’s lawsuit against nail salons for using a single bottle of polish on multiple clients. The State Board says it’s the attorney’s—not the practitioners’—actions that should be questioned.

It's Getting Hot In Here

A rash of salon fires reminds salon owners just how much they stand to lose. Knowing the potential fire dangers that exist in your salon and taking steps to curb them, as well as determining what your business is worth and getting good insurance coverage will help prevent a fire in your salon and minimize its effects should the worst come to pass.

Salon Security

Johnston County, N.C.; Uniondale, N.Y; Savannah, Ga.; Brea, Calif.; Shreveport, La.; Rockville, Md … State and federal agencies don’t have any statistics on the number of beauty salons robbed each year; but newspaper headlines from the past year show it can happen in any salon, anywhere. Make sure it doesn’t happen in yours.

Blown Away

After her salon was destroyed in a tornado, some of the companies she had loyally supported for many years offered to help replace what had been lost.

Fresh Air

Local exhaust systems pull vapors out of the salon before you breathe them. The best news is that you can custom-build a system for your salon at a reasonable cost.

Stop, Thief!

What to do if you’re robbed and how to prevent it from happening in the first place.

OSHA, L.A., More Air-Aware

According to the Nail Manufacturers Council (NMC) Safety & Standards Committee, OSHA published a proposal for an indoor air rule that would require employers to set up and implement an indoor air plan.