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BODY ART FACILITY INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL PLAN Operation Procedures This policy was written to comply with t the requirements of the California Safe Body Art Act Section 119313. Infection Prevention and Control Plan. 1. Sanitation A) Before working on each client, hands of the artist shall be thoroughly washed and dried using sound hygienic practices, prior to beginning work on each person or when interrupted in the process. B) Disposable, unused examination gloves shall be worn on both hands during the body art process. Gloves shall be changed and disposed of into a line trash container each time gloves come into contact with an object or surface other than the clients prepared kin or material to be used for the procedure,when the gloves become torn or punctured, or whenever their ability to function as a barrier is compromised. C) Each artist shall wear use a clean apron, bib, or lap pad over clean, dry clothing. D) Artists who are experiencing symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting, fever, rash, productive cough,jaundice, or draining (or open)skin infections, boils impetigo or scabies shall refrain from body art activities. E) Only single use, disposable razor's shall be used to shave the area to be tattooed. The disposable razor will be disposed razors shall be used to shave the area to be tattooed. The disposable razor will be disposed of to the sharps container after use. F) Before placing the design on the patron's skin, the tattoo artist shall treat the skin area with an antibacterial solution. Skin surfaces will be treated with alcohol wipes. G) Only commercially manufactured inks, dyes, and pigments shall be used. This facility uses predominately the following inks/dyes or pigments: face inks, biotouch, micro-pigment color, doreme, kp pigment, permablend H) If a paper stencil is used by a tattoo artist for transferring the design to the skin. It shall be single use and disposable 1) If the design is drawn directly onto the skin, it shall be applied with a single use article only. J) Cabinets for the storage of instruments, dyes, pigments, single use articles, shall be provided for each artist and shall be maintained in a sanitary manner, which protects the instruments from contamination. K) Needles needle bars, grommets, and razors shall be discarded into the sharps waste container immediately upon completion of the procedure. Q The surface of all work tables and chairs or benches shall be constructed of material which is smooth, nonabsorbent, and easily decontaminated.