Health and Safety

Added: 2010-06-25

How To: Enforcing a Health and Safety Policy in Your Salon
With the European Safe Maintenance Drive launching this month and recent warnings from the Health and Safety Executive, there has never been a better time to launch a risk assessment procedure in your salon...

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Added: 2009-05-28

Waving Goodbye to HSE Warnings
Some salon owners are rejecting government warnings urging hairdressers to wear gloves. Despite the Health and Safety Executive’s “Bad Hand Day” campaign, which encourages hairdressers to wear non-latex gloves at work, some salon owners have reservations about using the gloves...

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Added: 2009-04-22

The truth about colour
The secret behind hair dye remains glossed over by the beauty industry's rather glamorous image. But what do we really know about these products and the chemicals used in them? Jennifer Ebert investigates...

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Added: 2009-02-20

Don't have a Bad Hand Day!
Bad Hand Day? Yes, thats the creative name that the Health and Safety Executive came up with several years ago to draw attention to the problem of dermatitis for salon workers...

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