SHBXWHS003 - Apply safe hygiene, health and work practices

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Unit code: SHBXWHS003 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
City Campus
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to follow safe practices to minimise risks to self, client and colleagues in a salon environment.
It requires the ability to follow hygiene and skin penetration guidelines, clean the work area, use electricity safely, identify and report faults, use personal protection and work safely.
This unit applies to workers in environments providing beauty treatments and hairdressing or barbering services. In these environments they work with limited supervision, and have responsibility for providing safe treatments for their clients.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
• integrate the use of predetermined health, safety and security policies, procedures and safe work practices into day-to-day work functions across six, three hour work periods including:
• correctly applying personal protection and infection control procedures to minimise infection risk before, during and after six salon treatments or services
• while performing the above treatment or services follow organisational procedures for safe:
• cleaning of blood or body fluid spills
• disposal of sharps and single use instruments
• select, prepare, use and store cleaning and disinfection equipment and products for:
• equipment
• general salon areas
• work surfaces
• sequencing cleaning and disinfection procedures for effective decontamination of reusable equipment
• identifying incidents of short circuits, overloaded circuits and equipment wear and deterioration
• taking safe remedial action and reporting to supervisor following organisational procedures
• identifying workplace hazards and following organisational procedures for reporting:
• chemical spills
• broken or faulty tools and equipment
• fire
• needle stick injury
• slip, trips and falls
• spills and leakage of materials
• clean general salon area on two occasions
• participate in two hazard identification and associated risk assessment activities
• respond in line with organisational emergency procedures during one emergency evacuation.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
• basic aspects of the relevant state or territory Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) or Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation:
• responsibilities of persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) or employer
• worker responsibilities to participate in work health and safety practices
• worker responsibility to ensure safety of self, other workers and other people in the workplace
• ramifications of failure to observe OHS or WHS law and organisational policies and procedures
• industry and organisational procedures relevant to own job role:
• workplace hazards and associated health, safety and security risks
• health, safety and security policies and procedures for:
• consultation
• managing emergencies
• hazard identification, reporting and risk assessment
• dangerous incident and injury reporting
• working safely with tools, equipment and hazardous substances
• format and use of template:
• reports for hazards, injuries, emergencies and dangerous incidents
• risk assessments
• hierarchy of risk control:
• eliminate risks
• substitute hazard with safer alternative
• isolate the hazard from people
• reduce risk through engineering controls
• reduce exposure to hazards using administrative controls
• use personal protective equipment
• safe work practices for own job role with particular emphasis on:
• safe use of tools and equipment
• safe use and storage of hazardous substances and cleaning products
• safe manual handling techniques for bending, lifting and shifting heavy items
• potential injury and illness impacts of unsafe beauty work practices including bullying and harassment
• relevant state or territory and local legislation and guidelines relevant to own job role:
• health and hygiene when providing beauty treatments
• skin penetration
• infection control procedures relevant to salon treatments and to own job role:
• equipment and work surface design, cleaning and disinfecting
• handling and disposal of sharps
• laundry procedures
• personal hygiene practices
• personal protective equipment
• organisational infection control procedures:
• cleaning sequence and rosters
• preparation and use of cleaning chemicals
• treatment procedures
• process for managing exposure to infectious clients
• infectious agents and their relationship to salon treatments and service:
• viruses
• bacteria
• fungi
• parasites
• transmission routes of infectious diseases and their relationship to personal services and treatments:
• direct contact
• non-intact skin
• work surfaces
• equipment
• cross infection:
• client to operator
• operator to client
• operator to operator
• blood to blood infections:
• HIV/AIDS
• hepatitis
• contingency procedures for occupational exposure to blood and body fluid
• infectious contraindications relevant to own job role and required action steps:
• erysipelas
• herpes
• impetigo
• pediculosis
• scabies
• appropriate selection and use of personal protective equipment relevant to own job role
• immunisation protection for workers in the personal services industry
• methods of cleaning procedures used in a salon environment
• benefits of physical, thermal and chemical disinfection
• different types, dilutions and storage of chemical disinfection products
• safe use of electrical equipment and according to manufacturer instructions relevant to own job role:
• safety considerations:
• contingency plans and emergency procedures
• effects of electrocution
• factors affecting severity of electrical shock
• how short circuits occur:
• faulty equipment or insulation
• current that bypasses the load
• how overloaded circuits occur:
• faulty equipment
• excessive current through circuit
• types of electrical safety devices:
• earth leakage circuit breakers
• overload cut out devices:
• circuit breakers
• fuses
• surge protectors
• causes of static electricity and minimisation in a salon environment.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by VU Polytechnic and/or via the VU Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate III in Beauty Services
SHB30121 | Certificate iii | Duration:
Certificate IV in Beauty Therapy
SHB40121 | Certificate iv | Duration:
Diploma of Beauty Therapy
SHB50121 | Diploma | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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