Case Study

Part A: Infection Control

Mary has just finished her last client and her feet were aching from her new shoes; she changed into her thongs before helping to clean the treatment rooms and finish the daily closing tasks. Mary was tasked with gathering all the used towels for laundering. She went into the treatment room to gather up all the towels from the bed and on her way out tripped on her thongs and knocked the glass of water the client had left on the floor. Mary fell, dropping the towels, as she hit the floor she felt a sharp pain in her hand, on closer inspection she saw a needle that had been used for extraction next to her hand and her hand was bleeding. You hear Mary scream and you find her sitting on the floor holding her hand.

1. After helping Mary and ensuring her safety, write a report to address the following points:

a) Legal responsibilities for a salon in relation to infection control.

b) Source of possible infection and the means of transmission;
• Viruses
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Transmission

c) Aetiology of infection.

d) The additional precautions you should take according to the National Health and Medical Research Council.

Part B:

1. Write a salon procedure for the following:

a) Responding to blood spills (please refer to your local state or territory for skin penetration guidelines).

b) Responding to needle stick injuries (please refer to your local state or territory for skin penetration guidelines).

c) You are required to complete the following report on design of premises in relation to infection control. To complete this task, you are required to access a beauty salon workplace or use your college training salon.

d) What is the Australian standard for cleaning the inside of the steriliser and the steriliser trays?