Hairdressing, skin penetration and beauty salon inspections
- Information for business operators
- Fees and charges

Muswellbrook Shire Council carries out inspections and maintains a register of Skin Penetration Premises, Hairdressers and Beauty Salons.
Matters which are investigated include
- cleanliness
- sanitation and sterilisation practices
- adequacy of construction and
- personnel hygiene.
For information on legislation and fact sheets you are referred to the following NSW Department of Health pages
- Acupuncture
- Hairdressers and barbers
- Skin penetration premises
- Ear piercing
- Head lice
- Colonic lavage
- Tattooists
- "Disease Risk from Unsafe Skin Penetration" an educational resource for skin penetration operators. (1.94mb)
- Skin Penetration Premises Regulatory Inspection Form to be used as a checklist (13.1kb)
Inspection fees per premises for 2011-2012 financial year, in relation to Local Govt Act and other Acts
(incl. reinspection for compliance) ...$100.
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This page last updated 16 February, 2012 12:10 PM

