Beauty Salon & Barber Shop Safety Checklist
By assessing your business procedures and ensuring that your employees are adequately trained, you can create a safer workplace, reduce the risk of losses and help protect your business and your employees.
| Employees |
| Do you have Material Safety Data Sheets for products to which employees will be exposed? Have you verified the personal protection to be used with each product? | |
| Enforce the use of protective gloves when working with preparations that could cause or aggravate skin irritations? | |
| Have adequate ventilation to remove mists or sprays that may be harmful? | |
| Services Provided |
| Use only brand name, quality products? Do you have purchase records to document the use of such material | |
| Follow use and warning instructions provided by product manufacturers? | |
| Verify proper application instructions and product warnings for house labeled products? Have these products been reviewed by legal counsel? | |
| Question customers about sensitivity to possible preparations that will be used? | |
| Maintain sufficient records to provide customers with the formulas of chemicals used in their services? Could this be provided to a physician for treatment of any rashes or other negative health effects? | |
| Organize your supply areas with clear labeling to avoid the possibility of using the wrong product or formula? | |
| Verify the licensing and certifications of staff performing electrolysis or hair replacement services that involves penetration of the skin? | |
| Office Location |
| Routinely inspect parking and entrance ways to verify smooth and adequately lit walking surfaces? | |
| Clearly mark traffic patterns? | |
| Store soiled towels, hair clippings and trash in closed metal containers? | |
| Have – and use – double cylinder deadlocks on all exterior doors? | |
| Have adequate electrical systems? Circuit breakers, no use of temporary extension cords in lieu of permanent wiring, fused power strips for multiple electrical connections. | |
| Customers |
| Regularly inspect chair conditions, booster seat anchor bolts and safety straps? | |
| Provide smocks and towels to protect clothing and skin for all services provided? | |
| Routinely inspect grounding and wiring of electrical appliances? | |
| Have dryers guarded with an automatic cut-off switch to prevent overheating? | |
| Maintain availability of emergency exits? Are these exits clear, adequately lit, and highly visible to customers? | |
The above checklist gives general information related to safety tips and is not intended to address all risks to injury.