| (a) Practitioners must clean their hands with soap
and water or a hand sanitizer prior to performing any services.
(b) Practitioner must clean the areas of the client's
body on which the service is to be administered.
(c) All metal manicure and pedicure tools must be properly
cleaned, disinfected and sterilized or sanitized prior to each service,
in accordance with this chapter, regardless of the tool's multiuse
for only a single client or for multiple clients.
(d) After each client, the following implements must
be cleaned, disinfected and sterilized or sanitized in accordance
with the rule: metal pusher and files, cuticle nipper and scissors,
metal tweezers, finger and toe nail clippers, and electric drill bits.
(e) The following implements are single-use items and
must be discarded after use: orangewood sticks, cotton balls, nail
wipes and disposable towels.
(f) Buffer blocks, porous nail files, pedicure files,
callus rasps, natural pumice and foot brush, arbor, sanding bands,
sleeves, heel and toe pumice, exfoliating block (washable materials)
must be cleaned by manually brushing or other adequate methods to
remove all visible debris after each use, and then sprayed with an
EPA-registered bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal disinfectant,
or a high level disinfection chlorine bleach solution in accordance
with this chapter. If a buffer block or porous nail file is exposed
to broken skin (skin that is not intact) or unhealthy skin or nails,
it must be discarded immediately after use in a trash receptacle.
(g) The following materials that are used during a
manicure and pedicure must be replaced with new or clean articles
for each client: terry cloth towels, finger bowls and spatulas that
contact skin or skin products from multi-use containers.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §83.106 adopted to be effective March 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 1280; amended to be effective August 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 5952; amended to be effective October 11, 2007, 32 TexReg 7050; amended to be effective February 17, 2012, 37 TexReg 681; amended to be effective January 1, 2016, 40 TexReg 8759; amended to be effective January 1, 2023, 47 TexReg 8640 |
