Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC
25-8-3-23
Affected: IC 25-8
Sec. 9.
(a) All
instruments, including:
(1) forceps;
(2) comedone extractors;
(3) tweezers;
(4) brushes; and
(5) facial rollers; used by an esthetician,
or esthetics student in a cosmetology school, shall be sterilized prior to use
on a customer.
(b)
Sterilization required under subsection (a) shall be as follows:
(1) Instruments shall be:
(A) washed in a low residue detergent and
rinsed prior to sterilization; and
(B) disinfected using an EPA registered
bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant, used according to
manufacturer's instructions.
(2) High frequency wands shall be cleaned
using an EPA registered bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant, used
according to manufacturer's instructions.
(3) Forceps, tweezers, and comedone
extractors shall be sterilized using a steam autoclave or a dry heat
sterilizer.
(4) All instruments,
other than those instruments under subdivision (3), shall be sterilized or
disinfected by means of:
(A) an EPA registered
bactericide, viricide, and fungicide disinfectant;
(B) a steam autoclave using fifteen (15)
pounds of pressure for thirty (30) minutes at two hundred fifty (250) degrees
Fahrenheit or follow manufacturer's instructions; or
(C) a dry heat
sterilizer.
(5)
Sterilization shall be accomplished by placing instruments in one (1) or both
of the following:
(A) A steam autoclave
sterilizer in which the instruments are subjected to saturated steam of the
pressure of fifteen (15) pounds per square inch for thirty (30) minutes at two
hundred fifty (250) degrees Fahrenheit.
(B) A dry heat sterilizer in which
instruments are heated for two (2) hours at three hundred forty (340) degrees
Fahrenheit.
(c)
An esthetician, or esthetics student in a cosmetology school, shall do the
following:
(1) Wash his or her hands in fresh
water with germicidal soap (antimicrobiotic) immediately before serving each
customer.
(2) When extracting
blackheads, milia, or comedones, wear protective gloves, which must be disposed
of after providing the service to a customer.
(3) When waxing, wear protective gloves,
which must be disposed of after providing the service to a customer, and use a
new applicator for each application of wax.
(d) The chair and table where a customer is
receiving esthetician services shall have clean coverings.
(e) There shall be a secured draping between
the esthetician or esthetics student in a cosmetology school and the customer
during an esthetics session.
(f)
All disposable items, including:
(1) cotton
swabs;
(2) tissues;
(3) tongue depressors;
(4) spatulas;
(5) cellulose sponges;
(6) plastic or saran wraps; and
(7) gauze; used by an esthetician or
esthetics student in a cosmetology school shall be disposed of after serving a
customer.
(g) An
esthetician or an esthetics student in a cosmetology school shall dispense all
products in a sanitary manner using:
(1)
spatulas;
(2) pumps; or
(3) other sanitary
devices.
(h) Lancets used
by an esthetician or an esthetics student in a cosmetology school shall be
disposed of in a lancet safety device (waste container) after serving a
customer.
