Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part XXXV - Electrologists
Chapter 13 - Schools, Offices, Apprenticeship Programs; Apprenticeship Program Practitioners Premises
Section XXXV-1303 - Sanitary Requirements for Schools, Apprenticeship Programs, and Electrology Offices

A. Every electrolysis school, apprenticeship program and electrology office shall be adequately lighted, well ventilated and kept in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.

B. In compliance with recommendations of the Centers for of Disease Control (CDC), all electrology schools, apprenticeship programs, and electrology offices shall be equipped with either a dry heat sterilizer or steam heat autoclave to be used in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. A new unopened presterile disposable type probe shall be used for each client treatment. Techniques of sterilization of other instruments shall be the same as is used in hospitals, using pressure heat, dry heat, or any other method of sterilization deemed appropriate by the board. All other instruments must be thoroughly cleansed with soap and water and then wiped clean with 70 percent alcohol solution before being placed in one of the following sterilization units. The instruments must then be sterilized following the manufacturer's proper sterilization procedures. These temperatures must be maintained during the complete sterilization cycle:

C. All probes must be discarded in a Contamination Waste Box (red box), then discarded or collected in accordance with State Biomedical Hazardous Waste Disposal Procedures.

D. Vinyl, latex, or any other protective medical examination gloves shall be used while attending electrology procedures. Hands shall be thoroughly washed with soap and water after removal of gloves. Unused gloves shall be used for each patient procedure and discarded after each use or if practitioner leaves patient's side or touches anything.

E. Clean tissues, paper towels or freshly laundered towels shall be used for each patient. Before any patient is permitted to recline in a chair or on a table, said object shall be covered with a clean professional size towel or drape or a clean professional type tissue and shall be disposed of or laundered after each use.

F. The skin area to be treated must first be cleaned with 70 percent alcohol.

G. Every patient must be treated on a professional treatment table or chair, which shall be used for the purpose of electrolysis treatment only. The exception to the preceding is if the patient is physically handicapped; the patient may be treated in a wheelchair, stretcher, medical bed, chair or table.

H. All treatment shall be given in privacy within an enclosed area.

I. The electrolysis treatment room shall be provided with a separate entrance, but not leading directly from the exterior of the house or building. One must not pass through any part of the living quarters in order to reach the treatment room.

J. The treatment room shall be closed from adjacent rooms by walls or doors. During treatment, such doors shall remain closed.

K. Every office shall have hand washing facilities with operating hot and cold water in the treatment room or adjacent room which can be reached without passing through any part of the living quarters. Such hand washing facilities shall not be located in the bathroom, or public restroom.

L. No electrologist, electrologist technician, instructor, apprentice or student in an apprenticeship program or school shall knowingly treat a person who is infected with impetigo, any contagious disease, skin malignancy, or any disease dangerous to the public.

M. No electrologist, electrologist technician, instructor, apprentice or student in an apprenticeship program or school shall treat a diabetic person without written authorization of the patient's treating physician.

N. All electrologists, electrologist technicians, instructors, apprentices and students, must place probe in holder of epilator when not in use.