Beauty salons

A qualification designed to reduce health and safety risks in beauty salons has been launched by CIEH (the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health).

The CIEH's Marianne Phillips said: "As people working in the beauty industry are regularly faced with wide ranging health and safety risks from slips and trips to hazardous chemicals - workplace incidences and accidents in the beauty industry remain stubbornly high and difficult to reduce." The new qualification will provide candidates with knowledge and understanding of health and safety issues affecting the salon, helping them to work more safely and be more aware of how their own actions can affect the health, safety and wellbeing of others.