Covid – 19 Personal Services Industry Update
On June 30, 2020, all Personal Services Business Owners and Operators received a memo from Environmental Public Health, Safe Healthy Environments, Alberta Health Services, to inform us of the New Personal Services Regulation and Standards coming into force on July 1, 2020, for the safety of all Albertans.
Beauty By Shazma Business Response
BEAUTY BY SHAZMA operates in accordance with the Personal Services Regulation and Standards legislated by Alberta Health Services, The City of Calgary, and The Government of Canada. All of our policies and procedures have been created in conjunction with our Public Safety Officer to ensure compliance with legislated requirements, maintain the most up-to-date and current operational standards for our business and your health and safety.
Covid-19 Risk Mitigation
Under current Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s Orders, BEAUTY BY SHAZMA’S Covid-19 Risk Mitigation strategy is in place to minimize the risk of transmission of infection among attendees; ensure that attendees maintain high levels of sanitation and personal hygiene; rapid response procedures if an attendee develops symptoms of illness; and strict compliance with the COVID-19 General Relaunch Guidance.
Artist and Client Safety Measures
- All guests will be provided with our Visitor Policy prior to their arrival so that we are on the same page when it comes to safety and everyone is following the same safety protocol.
- Artist and client must be in good health with no symptoms of COVID-19, have not travelled by air or out of province for 14 days. A full COVID-19 screening as per Alberta Health Services will be completed on the day of scheduled appointment for both artist and client.
- Artist and client must immediately don fluid resistant masks upon entry to the studio. Clients must doff masks after leaving the studio. Employees will follow appropriate standards on disposal of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Artists will wear PPE that protects their mouth, eyes, hands, feet, body, and clothing from potential contamination. Clients will also be provided with full PPE for their protection.
- The studio will be open by appointment only. No walk-in foot traffic or friends/family/spectators will be permitted. The studio doors will be locked at all times except to let clients in and out.
- Client consultations will be done virtually online to reduce the number of visits to the studio.
- Any procedure requiring clients to remove protective masks for the procedure will not be completed at this time.
- Food and drink are not permitted at workstations. Clients may take a break in the lobby to drink or eat a snack, wash hands, and return to the appointment with a new mask on.
- Mandatory adherence to the recommended physical distancing guidelines.
Documentation
- Revised client release forms affirm that there are no symptoms of Covid-19.
- Release forms may be signed online during this time to reduce the handling of surfaces in the studio. These release forms will still be printed out in copy and stored physically onsite as we already do per Alberta Guidelines.
- Client follow-up at 14 days is utilized to check up on the health of the client. This reporting must be available to Public Health Officers.
Studio Environment
- BEAUTY BY SHAZMA will continue to maintain infection control guidelines and standards that are already in place to minimize the risk of exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens and other potentially infectious material and disease. Our studio has already been designed to have a safe flow of traffic, safe engineering controls built into our studio design, and Permanent Beauty Specialist’sare trained in work practice controls to operate safely.
- Artist will continue to clean and disinfect all environmental surfaces with appropriate commercial disinfectants before and after daily opening to the public and after each client interaction. High-touch surfaces are disinfected after each contact.
- Artist will continue to utilize disposable barriers for work surfaces, client areas, and application equipment including machine and clip cord bags, drape sheets and dental bibs, etc.
- All single-use equipment is discarded after use on one client if its manufacturer has labelled or associated it with any of the following terms, symbols, or equivalent wording:
- single-use
- not for reuse
- do not re-use
- disposable
- discard after single-use
- do not use twice
- Inks, disinfectants, disposable needles and tubes and other critical items will continue to be handled and stored safely, as per Alberta Health Guidelines and standards; the same as we have always done.
- The Association for Alberta Safe Body Art does not recommend home-based studios are included in this proposed relaunch as transparency for day to day operations cannot be effectively monitored by the public, the AASBA or public health officers.
Beauty ByShazma is a commercial-based studio located at #27 – 1206 3rd Street SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 2S9, next to the Cowboy’s Casino, the BMO Centre, the Calgary Stampede Grounds, Victoria Park Train Station, and the Scotia Bank Saddledome.
We encourage booking the Pre-Procedure consultation that we offer free of charge to individuals interested in the 3D Nano Brow Tattooing Procedure. We will be able to answer questions on an individual basis and provide client-specific recommendations.
We look forward to working together with you to keep us all safe and healthy. Thank you.