Chapter 5: Infection Control

5.0 (6 reviews)
Adam is a new employee at the Spiral Curl Salon. Adam will begin as an assistant and, once he is licensed, he will graduate to a junior stylist. On his first day of work, his salon mentor, Mary, takes him on a tour of the salon, pointing out the various areas that will be his responsibility as they walk through the salon. Adam will have many duties; the most important of these will be to help keep the salon cleaned, disinfected, and safe for both the clients and the stylists.
Mary explains to Adam that ___, a federal agency, regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace.
Click the card to flip 👆
1 / 13
Terms in this set (13)
Adam is a new employee at the Spiral Curl Salon. Adam will begin as an assistant and, once he is licensed, he will graduate to a junior stylist. On his first day of work, his salon mentor, Mary, takes him on a tour of the salon, pointing out the various areas that will be his responsibility as they walk through the salon. Adam will have many duties; the most important of these will be to help keep the salon cleaned, disinfected, and safe for both the clients and the stylists.
Mary explains to Adam that ___, a federal agency, regulates and enforces safety and health standards to protect employees in the workplace.
the OSHA
Adam asks, what is specifically addressed in these standards?
issues relating to the handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of products used in cosmetology services.
Adam sees a binder on the counter in the salon dispensary labeled "SDS" that contains forms with pictograms and 16 categories of information about products used in the salon. Mary ex-plains that SDSs are:
Safety data sheet
Mary further explains that Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) contain information on:
both of the above
Adam asks Mary where SDS come from. She responds that they come from:
product manufacturers who provide them for free
Mary tells Adam that if a state inspector comes into the salon, he or she will look for a ___, which verifies that all of the salon employees have read the information on the SDS.
sign-off sheet with employee signatures
Adam reads the label on the disinfectants in the salon dispensary and is reminded that, in case someone is accidentally cut and blood is present, a ___ must be used to clean the styling station and tools.
hospital disinfectant
Mary explains to Adam the daily cleaning and disinfecting procedure the salon uses, and that pathogens of concern in the salon are adequately destroyed by using a(n) _____disinfectant.
EPA-registered
Park has just completed Mr. Johnson's pedicure appointment. During the pedicure, she used a number of items, including cotton balls, a wooden pusher, nippers, toenail clippers, abrasive files, and paper towels. Now it is time for Park to clean up and prepare for her next client.
Which of these items that Park used can be cleaned, disinfected, and used again with another client?
Nippers
Park knows that she needs to disinfect her toenail clippers. What should she do with them before scrubbing them with soap and water?
rinse them with warm running water
While cleaning the toenail clippers with soap and water, Park uses _____ to scrub the small, tight areas. a scrubbing padnail brushAfter washing and drying the toenail clippers, Park prepares to place them in the container of disinfection solution, but notices that it looks very cloudy. What should she do?replace the disinfection solution before placing the nail clippers in itPark let the toenail clippers soak in the disinfection solution for 10 minutes, as directed by the label on the bottle of disinfectant. After removing the nail clippers from the solution with tongs, she should:rinse them with warm running water