What is a Non-Higher Risk Personal Appearance Service?
A non-higher risk personal appearance service includes the following: • Hairdressing • Beauty Therapy including facial or body treatments, application of cosmetics, manicures or pedicures, application of, or mending artificial nails, epilation including by electrolysis or hot or cold wax and those skin penetration procedures that are not mentioned above • Skin penetration procedures that are not mentioned above, for example closed ear or nose piercing. Non higher risk personal appearance services are not required to be licensed however the business proprietor and operators still have an obligation to minimise infection risks for personal appearance services. A business proprietor must – • Take all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the risk of infection to clients; and • Ensure each operator employed or otherwise engaged by the proprietor takes all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the infection risk to the proprietor’s clients.
