For equipment, wherever possible: — keeping sharing to a minimum — assigning items to individuals — using disposable items, for example nail files. Objective: To make sure that any site or location that has been closed or partially operated is clean and ready to restart. Most air conditioning systems do not need adjustment if they draw in a supply of fresh air. Frequently cleaning objects and surfaces that people touch regularly. This includes counters, tills, self-checkouts, trolleys, coffee machines, betting machines or staff handheld devices.
Make sure there are adequate disposal arrangements for cleaning products. For example, touch free bins. Providing extra non recycling bins for workers and customers to dispose of single use face coverings and PPE. Sanitising any reusable equipment after each appointment and at the start and end of shifts. For example, client chairs, treatment beds, and tools such as scissors.
Use your usual cleaning products. Using disposable gowns for each client. Where this is not possible, use separate gowns and towels for each client. Wash them between uses and dispose of them appropriately as required.
Providing regular reminders and signage to maintain hygiene standards. Close contact services practitioners should increase handwashing during and in between appointments and use hand sanitizer if handwashing facilities are not available. Providing hand sanitiser in multiple accessible locations in addition to washrooms.
Setting clear use and cleaning guidance for toilets. Use gloves for any treatments where there is a risk of contact with blood or body fluids. You should manage them carefully to reduce that risk. Businesses should update their risk assessments for each premises where changing rooms are being used.
You should ensure adequate ventilation in changing rooms. For example, by ensuring mechanical ventilation works effectively and opening windows and vents where possible.
Where possible, leaving doors or curtains open in vacant changing rooms. This will increase fresh air flow into cubicles that have recently been occupied before the next customer enters. Leaving a gap of several minutes between one customer leaving a cubicle and the next customer entering. For stores with 2 or more cubicles, you could do this by alternating cubicle usage. Setting clear use and cleaning guidance, where changing rooms are cleaned frequently or between every use.
Use normal cleaning products. Pay attention to frequently hand touched surfaces, and consider using disposable cloths or paper roll to clean all hard surfaces. Creating procedures to manage clothes that have been tried on, to minimise contact between customers and staff. Encouraging people to wash their hands more often. Put in place more handwashing facilities for workers who handle goods and merchandise.
Provide hand sanitiser where this is not practical. Reducing risk when handling merchandise. For example, through different display methods, new signage or rotation, or cleaning of high touch stock with your usual cleaning products. Putting in place a process to manage customer use of testers. For example, have staff monitor the use of testers, limit customer handling, and clean them between uses.
For cosmetic and make-up testing, you could also use disposable applicators and place them into disposable pots, use sanitised tiles, and decant products. Putting in place pick-up and drop-off collection points to reduce the number of people workers come into contact with. Providing guidance to how workers can safely assist customers with handling large item purchases. Consider interior and exterior touch points in certain cases. For example, rental equipment and test drive and rental vehicles.
Any use of PPE should be determined by an assessment of risks in the workplace. Face coverings are no longer required by law. However, people should wear face coverings in crowded and enclosed settings where they come into contact with people they do not normally meet. Where worn correctly, this may reduce the risk of transmission to themselves and others. Be aware that workers may choose to wear a face covering in the workplace. Businesses can encourage customers, visitors or workers to wear a face covering.
Consider encouraging, for example through signage, the use of face coverings by workers, particularly in indoor areas where they may come into contact with people they do not normally meet.
This is especially important in enclosed and crowded spaces. Some people are not able to wear face coverings, and the reasons for this may not be visible to others. Please be mindful and respectful of such circumstances. Find more information on when and where to wear face coverings. If your workers choose to wear a face covering, you should support them in using face coverings safely. This means telling them:. This plan should nominate a single point of contact SPOC where possible.
If you become aware of any positive cases of COVID in your workplace, you should follow the guidance for employers. This prompt action will help reduce the risk of a workplace outbreak. You should inform your local authority public health team if there is an outbreak at your workplace. Further information on the thresholds for notifying outbreaks and who to contact is available from your local authority. If your local UKHSA health protection team declares an outbreak, you will be asked to: — record details of symptomatic staff — assist with identifying contacts You should therefore ensure all employment records are up to date.
Providing adequate ventilation by switching on ventilation systems that draw in fresh air or opening windows. This will improve understanding and consistency of ways of working.
Engaging with workers through existing communication routes and worker representatives. Do this to explain and agree any changes in working arrangements. Developing communication and training materials for workers prior to returning to site. This is especially important for new procedures for arrival at work. Engaging with workers on an ongoing basis. This includes through trade unions or employee representative groups. Do this to monitor and understand any unforeseen impacts of changes to working environments.
Being aware of and focus on the importance of mental health at times of uncertainty. Using simple, clear messaging to explain guidelines using images and clear language. Using visual communications to explain changes to appointment schedules or stock shortages. For example, whiteboards or signage. Do this to reduce the need for face-to-face communications. These include:. You should also ensure that an appropriate setting is available for individuals to wait in while their test is processed.
Anyone with coronavirus symptoms can get a free NHS test. Employees who do not have symptoms of COVID can access testing free of charge at home or at a test site.
You can also pay an approved provider to provide tests or run a test site for your workplace. Read further guidance on supporting staff to get vaccinated. Public health is devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Additional information added to sections on: managing risk ventilation self-isolation reducing contact for workers. Priority actions to take - what businesses need to do to protect staff and customers. Complete a health and safety risk assessment that includes the risk from COVID Complete a risk assessment, considering the measures set out in this guidance. Provide adequate ventilation You should make sure there is an adequate supply of fresh air to indoor spaces where there are people present.
Who this guide is for This document is one of a set of documents about how to work safely in different types of workplace. Shops and branches include all retail stores. How to use this guidance. Thinking about risk. In this section 1. Reducing risk for customers and visitors. In this section 2. Objective: To make sure people understand what they need to do to maintain safety. In this section 3. Ventilation and workplace temperature There are steps you can take to make sure your workplace is adequately ventilated throughout the winter months, such as partially opening windows and doors, and opening higher-level windows.
Who should go to work. In this section 4. Objective: To make sure that nobody is discriminated against. Reducing contact for workers. Cleaning the workplace. In this section 6. Objective: To help everyone keep good hygiene through the working day. Personal protective equipment PPE and face coverings. If voluntary compliance with the licensing standards cannot be achieved, the Group recommends regulatory actions when necessary.
In addition, the Group provides technical assistance to its licensees, answers inquiries from consumers and investigates complaints involving possible violations of the state requirements for operating tattoo and body piercing studios. We require any business engaged in tattooing for example, the practice of producing an indelible mark or figure on the human body by scarring or inserting pigments under the skin using needles, scalpels or other related equipment or body piercing for example, the practice of creating an opening in a person's body, other than the earlobe, to insert jewelry or another decoration to be licensed with the Texas Department of State Health Services DSHS.
In addition, we require temporary locations at which tattooing or body piercing is performed for not more than seven days in conjunction with a single event or celebration to be licensed with the Department. To learn more on how to become licensed, visit the licensing requirements webpage. For C'est la Vie, who is now having to reschedule her appointments that were supposed to happen at Saved Tattoo, the process has been stressful.
But, with all of this going on, I feel thankful that I have…people to rebook. Both Layne and Snax were already only booking people about a month in advance at most, so their rebooking process has been less complicated.
Snax notes that she's currently only booking about a week in advance, just in case Atlanta shuts down again. In addition to dealing with rescheduling months of pre-booked appointments, some shops are cutting down the number of artists allowed to work at the same time for the sake of social distancing.
End of story. However, some tattoo artists we spoke to who already had higher price minimums said they had no intention of raising that price.
Every artist we spoke with agreed that we're likely to see more private studios opening after lockdowns end, in some cases because tattoo artists want more control over the environment they're working in, and in some cases, because the shop they previously worked at, like Saved Tattoo, has been permanently closed.
Snax notes that she knows a few people who left the shops they were working at to open private studios after they felt uncomfortable with the safety protocols or lack thereof being put in place by their former bosses. Although C'est la Vie agrees that we may see more artists open private studios, she believes that that ball was already rolling before the pandemic.
Luckily for all tattoo artists, even if some shops are closing, it doesn't seem like the demand for body art is slowing down amidst this pandemic. Hopefully, I still have a job in the next two or three months," Snax says. I think that for now all we can do is wear our protective gear, put on our masks, try to keep a limited number in the shop.
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