When clients enter your acupuncture practice, they want to know they are in good hands, receiving the best, most professional service. Follow these essential guidelines for hygiene in your practice to make sure you provide your clients with the very best duty of care.
Setting up a tattoo shop is no easy feat. In addition to all the hurdles that come with setting up a business, you’ll be dealing with potentially harmful chemicals, needles, body fluids, and hazardous waste.
Staying on the right side of the law by responsibly handling health and safety hazards is only possible through the right kind of equipment. We’ve put together a comprehensive list of all the hygiene supplies you need as a tattooist.
Every business has a duty of care to keep their premises clean, tidy, safe, and hygienic for staff, customers, and anyone else involved with operations. But some work environments are naturally more hazardous than others.
25% of businesses fail an inspection of eyewash stations. If your business fails to meet emergency eyewash station requirements you could face a fine or even prosecution.
In this article, we cover everything businesses need to know about eyewash stations.
Our bodies protect our eyes in several different ways so that dust, debris, and bright lights don’t damage them. But despite the complex make-up of the eye, it can be easily damaged if it comes into contact with a foreign object or substance.
In this article, we’ll cover the basics of eye wound first aid and what to do in an emergency at work.
Business owners have a ‘duty of care’ to put measures in place that protect their staff from harm. If your business is found to lack eyecare provisions where needed, you could face a fine or even prosecution.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to find out you don’t have the right eye first aid supplies. Read this guide to find out how to comply with UK first aid regulations and keep your staff safe.
When the eye is contaminated with a harmful chemical or foreign object, it must be washed out as quickly as possible in order to reduce irritation and the likelihood of injury or infection.
Eyewash is used to safely clean the eye membrane and prevent irritation or injury from occurring or getting worse until medical attention can be given. In this article, we’ll cover exactly what eyewash solution is, and what it is used for.
Seconds count when someone has an eye injury, whether they’ve been splashed with rubbing alcohol, or a splinter of wood found its way into the eye, the longer the contaminant is left untreated, the more chance it has of spreading, burning, or scratching the delicate eye membrane.
In this article, we’ll cover quick-fire advice for specific eye injury queries.
Veterinary practices are more high risk than other types of workplaces like offices and shops. Hazardous waste, prescription medicines, unpredictable animals, and exposure to pathogens are potentially daily occurrences for veterinary nurses and other staff working in the clinic.
As the owner, manager, infection control nurse, or health and safety officer of a veterinary practice, it’s your responsibility to identify hazards and potential hazards to take reasonable steps to keep people on the premises safe, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Here are some of the main hazards you should be aware of in a veterinary practice.
