COSHH Assessment for Semi-Permanent Makeup Technicians - Completed for Your Business

The chemical substances involved in semi-permanent makeup work extend well beyond the pigments. Topical anaesthetics containing lidocaine and prilocaine are standard practice and present skin absorption risks to the technician as well as the client. Aftercare products, skin preparation solutions, disinfectants, and cleaning agents all need to be included in a proper COSHH assessment. || For SPMU technicians, exposure occurs at multiple points during the working day - applying numbing cream to clients, handling pigments during mixing and loading, contact with aftercare products, and using disinfectants to clean equipment and surfaces between clients. || All of these substances need to be assessed under COSHH regulations. The assessment must cover what the substances are, what hazards they present, how exposure occurs, and what controls are in place to reduce that exposure.

A COSHH assessment that addresses only the pigments and ignores the numbing preparations, aftercare products, and disinfectants used in SPMU practice is incomplete. All of these substances are used regularly throughout the working day and all present chemical exposure risks. || Pigment assessment also needs to name specific products and address their hazardous components rather than simply listing brand names. The iron oxides and other compounds present in SPMU pigments need to be identified and assessed. || CompliantDocs generates your COSHH assessment from the full product range you tell us you use, producing documentation that covers everything relevant to your practice.