What are the essential activities that a Hairdressing or Nail Bar proprietor needs to undertake to comply with current Health and Safety legislation?
As an employer, you have a general duty of care towards both your employees and your clients under the Health & Safety At Work Etc. Act 1974 The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires you to assess the risks that the main activities of your business expose employees and customers to and then to implement reasonable control measures to eliminate or reduce those risks. In addition to the above, the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) specifically require you to carry out risk assessments in order to identify the risks associated with work activities which involved the use of chemicals or the presence of airborne substances like dust. If you have identified through this COSHH risk assessment process andthat your employees are being, or are likely to be, exposed to respiratory or skin sensitisers at work, then you are required to control those risks. This can be by either removing the causative agent completely, substituting it for a saf
