During a workshop in the Asharqia Chamber
10 health and safety requirements for beauty salons
During a remote workshop, which was held for the second time after the success of the first workshop, the director of development for L'Oréal Middle East, Patricia Freiha, identified a representative of the Business Women Center in the AsharqiaChamber, as a representative of the Commission of Women Workers and Centers, and in cooperation with L'Oréle Middle East, yesterday Wednesday, June 24, 2020, (10) requirements to achieve health and safety in beauty salons, and the rules for social separation, and ways to adapt to the new regulations, while allowing the return to work in beauty salons.
Fariha said, to achieve the utmost safety in beauty salons, salon owners must work to change the organization or planning of the salon internally in a manner that takes into account the rules of social divergence, and to adapt to the new regulations, by promoting the widening of the possibility of reception and waiting in the salon area, as well as adhering to public health and safety standards, By promoting hand hygiene, using masks and gloves, and wearing uniforms during customer service, as well as cleaning all tools and products after each client, and cleaning different areas of the hairdressing salon.
Fariha, by emphasizing the need for health and safety requirements inside the salons, continued, such as thermometers to measure the temperature of customers before entering, as well as the heat of work crews, and away from serving snacks, hospitality, and coffee, while providing usable materials once, in addition to removing all elements that facilitate touch it like magazines, tablets or information catalogs, as well as remove all test samples.
Fariha pointed out the importance of organizing the entry of people while maintaining a distance of two meters between them, activating the exclusive presence of customers by setting pre-dates, adapting work times, organizing employee rotation according to the new maximum capacity needed to maintain social spacing, and publishing health and safety posters, those related to explaining the method Hand washing, or how to sneeze or cough in the correct way, or how to use masks and gloves and get rid of them, pointing out to the importance of the work teams avoiding wearing their normal clothes inside the salons, but rather their commitment to uniforms and making sure to wash it daily.
At the end of the workshop, the chairwoman of the Chamber's Women and Workers Committee, Professor Shuaa Al-Dahilan, thanked and appreciated the L'Oréal team for presenting the workshop for the second time, which confirms the great success achieved by the workshop in its first edition, praising the partnership between L'Oreal and the Commission of Women Workers and Centers, noting That the goal of this partnership is to contribute to the development of the beauty salons sector in the region, by providing specialized workshops.
