COSHH Assessment for Permanent Makeup Artists - Completed for Your Business

The pigments used in permanent makeup procedures contain chemical compounds that fall within COSHH regulations. Iron oxides, carbon black, and various organic colourants used in eyebrow, lip, and eyeliner procedures all need to be assessed for their hazardous properties and the risks they present during handling and application. || For PMU artists, COSHH exposure is not just about skin contact during application. It includes handling pigments during mixing and dilution, inhalation of fine particles if pigment is disturbed, and contact with contaminated waste after procedures. The assessment needs to cover all of these exposure routes. || COSHH regulations apply regardless of the size of your business. As a self-employed PMU artist, you are required to assess and document the risks from the substances you use just as any larger business would be.

Because PMU training focuses primarily on the technical skill of the procedures, the compliance documentation side is often treated as an afterthought. Many practitioners either have no COSHH assessment at all, or have a generic beauty template that does not address the specific compounds used in permanent makeup pigments. || Regulators and insurers are becoming more attentive to the compliance documentation of PMU practitioners, particularly as the industry grows. A COSHH assessment that does not name the specific pigments and their hazardous components, or that fails to address the skin penetration route of exposure, is not adequate. || CompliantDocs generates your COSHH assessment based on the pigments and products you tell us you use, producing documentation that reflects your actual practice.