Create an infection control risk assessment procedure

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ASSESSMENT TASK

Part A: Create an Infection control risk assessment procedure for cleaning the salon

For this assessment, you are required to design a general salon procedure for cleaning your salon. Please refer to page 23 in your professional beauty textbook ‘General salon procedure for cleaning the salon' for a guide.

You are required to:

1. Look at each item on this list.

2. Next to each item, you are required to explain how you are going to clean each area, what you are going to use and how you are going to do it. Please refer to your local, state or territory infection control/skin penetration guidelines for assistance. You may also refer to page 23 in your ‘professional beauty' textbook for a similar example.
3. You are required to write your answers in a way that is easy for anyone to pick up and follow. Please refer to the example for how to clean wax off the floor in the reception below.

Part B: Research short answer questions

You are required to research the answers to the following questions using information from your local state or territory infection control guidelines and your learner guide:

1. Please briefly describe why infection control procedures are put into place in your state or territory?

2. Please list four (4) topics of information the infection control/skin penetration guidelines cover?

3. Give a brief description on what standard precautions are and your legal responsibilities relating to infection control in a salon environment?

4. Give five (5) examples of when hands should be washed?

5. Explain the difference between washing your hands with method 1 compared to method 2.

6. Give two (2) examples of precautions you should take to prevent or protect a skin lesion and minimise the risk of infection to you or your client?

7. Give three (3) examples of what you should do to manage a client who is bleeding?

8. Give three (3) examples of what steps you should take if you come in contact with blood in the workplace?

9. Please match the correct process to the correct comment:

Disinfection | Sterilisation | Cleaning

Items can be decontaminated by being washed in warm water and detergent, rinsed in hot water then dried.

A higher level of decontamination is required if these items have accidentally penetrated the skin or decontamination using warm water and detergent is not practical

This level of decontamination is required for items that have penetrated the skin, been in contact with bodily fluids or blood.

10. What are the six (6) steps of correctly disposing of sharps?

11. What kind of receptacle should you put soiled linen and protective clothing into?

12. Where should you store clean, disinfected and sterilised instruments to protect them from contamination, dust and vermin?

13. Where should you store your cleaning equipment and instruments after you have cleaned them?

14. Give an example of a blood-borne disease that can be spread from a treatment that involves skin penetration".

15. Give an example of how bacteria, cold sores, ringworm, scabies and head lice can be spread easily from person to person?

16. Please give two (2) examples of equipment that you would sterilise?

17. When using sterilising equipment, you must follow a sequence of operational procedures to ensure correct use. Please give a brief description of each procedure:

Packing of items:
Loading:
Monitoring:
Validation:
Calibration:
What records should you keep:

18. Access your local state or territory skin penetration guidelines and list four (4) potential infection control risks (to you or your client) associated to skin penetration.

19. Please give two (2) examples of how infection can be transferred through each mode:

20. Where can you obtain information in your state or territory relating to:
• Infection control standards
• Business licensing and registration
• Premise maintenance and requirements

Part C: Research at local beauty supplier

You are required to access the link below and read the product information for a spa disinfectant called SPAGIENE and answer

1. List three (3) things that can get caught inside the piping system of a spa bath?

2. What infection control risks exist if the debris is not cleaned from the pipes of the spa bath after the previous user?

3. What is the dilution rate or ml required (of Spa.Giene) to clean a spa bath after each use?

4. What is the recommended storage for Spa.Giene as per the MSDS?

5. What is the dilution rate or ml required to clean a pedicure foot spa/basin?

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