Are you a nail salon owner looking to improve sanitation in your salon? It’s now more important than ever to ensure your salon follows the latest hygiene standards to keep the health and well being of you, your employees, and your client’s safety.
When working in a busy nail salon, you see people come and go every hour of every day. This increases the risk of cross-contamination every time a new client walks through the salon doors. Whether it be fungi, viruses, or bacteria, germs can easily spread from surface to surface if you don’t play your part. From cleaning, sanitising and disinfecting surfaces, tools, and furniture, salon hygiene should be at the forefront of everything you do.
Our easy-to-follow nail salon sanitation checklist highlights the tasks we would recommend that you perform to ensure your salon is a safe, clean, and hygienic environment for you, your employees, and your clients.
- When booking customers in for treatments make sure you ask if they have been suffering from any symptoms of COVID 19 such as a high temperature, cough, or change in taste or smell, or if they have been in close contact with anyone who has symptoms. If they answer yes to this then you need to ask the customer to re-book their appointment for another date when they are symptom-free.
- Book client’s appointments with adequate spaces between to allow for cleaning between appointments and avoiding customers crossing paths - you could ask clients to wait in their vehicles until you text them to tell them it is safe to enter the salon.
- Make sure your record cards are up to date. If you find that there has been a risk of exposure to the virus you will need to be able to quickly and easily contact people under the track and trace system
- Wash your hands before and after each client
- Ensure your client washes their hands before and after their treatment
- Ensure you dispose of gloves and replace with a new pair before every client
- Dispose of single-use items such as files, buffers, orangewood stick, etc.
- Replace table towels after each client
- Disinfect and sterilise multiple-use tools such as brushes, tweezers, cuticle nippers, cuticle pushers, and removers, nail clippers, etc.
- Disinfect your manicure table and UV/LED lamp
- Disinfect any hard surfaces your clients may have come into contact with
- Disinfect salon furniture between each client or add a new paper towel covering to any appropriate surfaces
- Keep the salon floor as clean as possible by regularly sweeping and mopping daily.
- Sanitize door handles and rails regularly with disinfectant
- Sanitize surfaces, handles, and appliances within your employee communal areas such as the kitchen
Cleaning whirlpool pedicure spas:
- Remove all waste
- Rinse with water
- Refill with clean water and hospital-grade disinfectant
- Circulate for 10 minutes and drain
- Rinse with clean water and dry
Cleaning pipeless pedicure spas:
- Drain water
- Remove all removable parts
- Disinfect and sterilise all parts and rinse
- Refill basin with clean water and hospital-grade disinfectant
- Circulate for 10 minutes and drain
- Rinse with clean water and dry
Cleaning pedicure and manicure bowls:
- Drain water
- Clean with disinfectant/soap and water
- Rinse and refill with clean water
- Add appropriate amount of hospital-grade disinfectant
- Leave to soak for 10 minutes
- Drain, rinse with clean water and dry
Cleaning electric nail files:
- Sanitise with disinfectant
- Replace the nail file roller with a new or sterilised roller
Cleaning nail brushes:
- Sterilise nail brushes after every use
We know that there is still a long and arduous road ahead for salons to return to normal, or as close to normal as possible but we hope our Nail Salon Sanitation Checklist provides you with a helpful guide to keeping your salon sanitised and hygienic for you, your employees and clients to enjoy and feel safe.
Professional Beauty Direct specialises in salon insurance for nail technicians, beauty therapists and hairdressers and stylists as well as self-employed individuals and students. For more information about our services please do not hesitate to get in touch with our friendly and knowledgeable team on info@professionalbeautydirect.co.uk or call us on 0345 605 8670.
1st July 2020
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