Hygiene, disinfection and licensing rules for premises where a blade meets skin.
Overview
Personal-care premises carry a genuine blood-borne virus risk, which is why licensing authorities inspect them at all. Developed under the AGS Technical Quality Management System as the international edition of source regulation PHC-C-12, this guideline draws WHO guidance on hand hygiene, on preventing blood-borne virus transmission and on instrument decontamination into one enforceable code for barbershops, hairdressers and beauty establishments.
The sequence runs from approval and premises to the service encounter, then to reprocessing, health certification and self-inspection. This is a single reference guideline rather than a procedure set; annexes A to F add reprocessing and service tables, an establishment inspection checklist, a health examination reference, conformance mapping and a jurisdictional adaptation register.
What it covers
- Establishment approval, licensing and management responsibility for the hygiene system
- Location, layout, structural requirements and prohibited adjacencies
- The service encounter — per-customer sequence, the blade discipline for shaving, single-use articles, towels, linen and hair care chemical safety
- Instrument reprocessing: cleaning, the disinfection menu and verification
- Cross-infection control, patron health screening, refusal of service, personal hygiene, work clothing and the Health Card
Who it's for
Salon and barbershop owners, beauty chains putting one standard across branches, public health inspectors, and the licensing authorities and consultants who regulate personal-care premises. It is usually bought ahead of a licensing round or after an inspection finding, and it leaves hygiene rules plain enough to train staff on and check them against.
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