Hazards

The following is a list of hazards that may be found in the beauty salon

1. Chemical services (bleaching, chemical relaxing, coloring and tinting, permanent waving, manicuring, sculptured nails, shampooing and conditiong).
2. Slippery floors from spilled products, water splashes, or cutting.
3. Eye splashes when mixing products or applying them to the client's hair or nails.
4. Leaning and bending over shampoo bowls, client's chair, or manicuring table and reaching for supplies.
5. Repetitive motion from cutting, blow drying or rolling hair may result in carpal tunnel.
6. Communicable diseases, such as colds, lice, and very rarely herpes, Aids, tuberculosis.
7. Thermal equipment and other electrical equipment used for styling or cosmetician services. Curling irons and blow dryiers can become very hot, so extreme caution must be used to prevent burning you or the client.
8. In salons that allow smoking, second hand smoke from co-workers or clients. Smoking around chemicals can also cause additional health hazards as the chemicals you are workign with can contaminate your cigarettes (either from settling or the cigarette or getting on your hands and not washing them thoroughly before smoking); We are a smoke free school.

Some health effects are more common than others are. The following is a list divided between the most and least common health effect.