Below Hair Studio
7017 Armour Bend SW Edmonton AB T6W 4S8 · Personal Services
Inspection summary
Below Hair Studio has been inspected 2 times by Alberta Health Services (Environmental Public Health) since March 8, 2024. The most recent inspection, on March 8, 2024, recorded 5 infractions.
1 of 2 inspections on record found no infractions at all. No inspections are on record from the past 12 months. The higher-risk findings here relate to: Hand hygiene and infection control.
What these findings mean
Health authorities word their findings differently, so we group them by what they mean for clients. In personal service settings like salons, spas and tattoo studios, higher-risk findings are the ones that could spread infection from one client to the next, through broken skin, blood or instruments that were not properly cleaned and sterilized.
Hand hygiene and infection controlHigher risk
Infection control is the core of a personal service inspection. Inspectors check that operators clean their hands and change gloves between clients, that a stocked hand sink is available, and that anything that breaks the skin is handled so blood-borne infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV cannot pass from one client to the next.
Recorded once on March 8, 2024. For example:
Is hand hygiene performed by the personal services worker when required, in a proper manner and are provisions available to perform hand hygiene?
Food safety training and certificationLower risk
Some jurisdictions require operators to complete infection-prevention training, or to hold specific qualifications for higher-risk services such as tattooing, piercing or electrolysis. These findings mean the training record was missing at the time. They do not by themselves mean a client was put at risk.
Recorded once on March 8, 2024. For example:
Has the operator notified the RHA of the existence of a personal service business, including contact and location information, as well as all personal services currently offered or new personal services that will be offered for facilities and/or special events?
Permits, records and postingLower risk
Operating permits, client records, sterilization logs and required signage. Client records matter because they let health officials contact people if an infection is linked to the business.
Recorded once on March 8, 2024. For example:
Are facility-specific written procedures established to adequately describe safe and sanitary practices?
Equipment and utensilsLower risk
Instruments, chairs, tables and footbaths must be made of materials that can be cleaned, kept in good repair and stored so they stay clean. Single-use items such as nail files, buffers, razors and needles must be thrown away after each client.
Recorded once on March 8, 2024. For example:
Is reusable equipment disinfected properly?
Other findingsLower risk
Findings that do not fit the categories above, such as follow-ups that confirm an earlier violation was corrected, or requirements specific to this type of facility.
Recorded once on March 8, 2024. For example:
Are general nuisance conditions, other than those noted in other violations, being prevented at this personal services facility (Critical)?
About this data
These results come from Alberta Health Services (Environmental Public Health), which inspects food premises and other public facilities in this area. We republish the authority's public disclosure data and refresh it regularly; the official record is the final word.
2 inspections
- Initial Inspection
5 infractions
- 02. Has the operator notified the RHA of the existence of a personal service business, including contact and location information, as well as all personal services currently offered or new personal services that will be offered for facilities and/or special events?
- (1) A PSN was submitted by the operator on March 8, 2024.
- 03. Are facility-specific written procedures established to adequately describe safe and sanitary practices?
- (1) The operator completed the Written Procedure for Accidental Skin Cuts or Punctures at the time of inspection.* Ensure written procedure is kept on site, and the staff are aware of where it is stored.* Ensure the written procedure is presented to a PHI upon request.
- 08. Is hand hygiene performed by the personal services worker when required, in a proper manner and are provisions available to perform hand hygiene?
- (1) There were no single use hand towels or paper towels supplied in the staff washroom. A stack of clean single use hand towels was placed on the shelf next to the staff washroom hand sink at the time of inspection.* Ensure staff are performing hand hygiene (i.e. washing hands with soap/water) when required. Hand hygiene must be performed by the personal services worker before and after every personal service, before putting on gloves that will be worn while providing a personal service, following the removal of gloves that are worn while providing a personal service, and after reprocessing.
- 20. Is reusable equipment disinfected properly?
- (1) There were combs with hair still on them in one of the workstation drawers. Only clean tools should be found inside the storage drawers. * Recommend having labeled bins for storing dirty tools until they can be washed and disinfected. (2) The proper steps were not being followed for cleaning and disinfecting tools. Tools were not being washed and dried before immersing them in the Barbicide solution. Some tools were being placed inside the Barbicide right after being used. Discussed the proper steps.* Ensure Barbicide solution is made fresh daily according to label instructions. Tools must be washed with soap and water, rinsed and dried prior to being disinfected for 10 minutes in the Barbicide solution. Rinse tools after immersion in Barbicide prior to use on client.
- 32. Are general nuisance conditions, other than those noted in other violations, being prevented at this personal services facility (Critical)?
- (1) There was an unlabeled spray bottle with yellow liquid. The operator labeled the bottle with a black marker indicating it was a Mr. Clean solution at the time of inspection.* Ensure all spray bottles are properly labeled.
- 02. Has the operator notified the RHA of the existence of a personal service business, including contact and location information, as well as all personal services currently offered or new personal services that will be offered for facilities and/or special events?
- Risk Management Inspection
0 infractions