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The Cutting Edge

4920 50 Avenue Barrhead AB T7N 1N2 · Personal Services

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Inspection summary

The Cutting Edge has been inspected 3 times by Alberta Health Services (Environmental Public Health) since November 14, 2023. The most recent inspection, on April 23, 2025, recorded 1 infraction.

1 of 3 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 November 14, 2023. 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?

  • 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 3 times across 2 separate inspections, most recently on April 23, 2025. For example: Is reusable equipment disinfected properly?

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.

3 inspections

  1. Monitoring Inspection

    1 infraction

    • 20. Is reusable equipment disinfected properly?
      • Test strips for the CS 20 were not observed. Ensure CS 20 is tested daily and recorded.
  2. Risk Management Inspection

    0 infractions

  3. Monitoring Inspection

    3 infractions

    • 08. Is hand hygiene performed by the personal services worker when required, in a proper manner and are provisions available to perform hand hygiene?
      • Hand sanitizer was noted to have expired in 2022. Please ensure that alcohol-based hand rub is not expired in order to be effective hand cleanser.
    • 15. Is reusable equipment handled and stored properly (Critical)?
      • Used tools for nail services are being stored in a stainless steel gravy boat. Please ensure that storage of used nail equipment is being stored in soapy water prior to immersion in CS20 disinfectant solution. When contaminated equipment is not in use, it should be stored in a way that prevents soil from hardening.
    • 20. Is reusable equipment disinfected properly?
      • The following items were noted to be expired: 1. PREempt CS20 test strips 2. PREempt CS20 disinfectant: expired in August 20233. PREempt CS20 accelerated hydrogen peroxide wipes: expired in April 2023Please ensure disinfectant solutions and wipes are not expired when in use for effective disinfection/sterilization and to have un-expired test strips available for accurate concentration testing.

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