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28-24-1

Kansas Administrative Regulation No. 28-24-1

Infection Control Regulations for Practitioners and Facilities

28-24-1 Definitions.

  1. ``Apprentice’’ has the meaning specified in K.S.A. 65-1901, and amendments thereto.
  2. ``Bleach solution’’ means a mixture consisting of one part liquid bleach and nine parts water. The solution shall be kept in a closed container, and a fresh solution shall be made at least once every 24 hours.
  3. ``Board’’ means the Kansas board of cosmetology.
  4. ``Clean’’ means free from all soil and dirt and washed with soap or detergent.
  5. ``Communicable disease or condition’’ means a disease or condition that is diag­nosed by a licensed health care professional as being contagious or transmissible and that can be transmitted in the practice of cosmetology, nail technology, electrology, or esthetics.
  6. ``Consumer’’ means a person who receives services from a licensed cosmetologist, electrologist, manicurist, esthetician, or cosmetology technician.
  7. ``EPA’’ means the United States environmental protection agency.
  8. ``Establishment’’ means any place licensed by the board of cosmetology where cosmetology, nail technology, electrology, or esthetics is practiced, other than a school.
  9. ``FDA’’ means the food and drug administration of the United States department of health and human services.
  10. ``Licensee’’ means any person licensed as a cosmetologist, cosmetology technician, manicurist, electrologist, esthetician, or instructor.
  11. ``Mobile establishment’’ means a self-contained, enclosed mobile unit licensed for the practice of one or more of the following:
    1. Cosmetology;
    2. nail technology;
    3. esthetics; and
    4. electrology.
  12. ``Noninvasive,’’ when used to describe procedures or services, means the proce­dures or services confined to the nonliving cells of the epidermis found in the stratum corneum layer of the skin. The practice of cosmetology, nail technology, or esthetics shall not alter, cut, or damage any living cells.
  13. ``Operator’’ means the person who is licensed to operate an establishment or school.
  14. ``Product’’ means any liquid, cream, powder, spray, or other material used on the consumer in the practice of cosmetology, electrology, nail technology, or esthetics.
  15. ``Protective gloves’’ means gloves made of vinyl or latex or of an alternate material that provides equivalent protection.
  16. ``School’’ means any place licensed by the board of cosmetology for the training of cosmetologists, manicurists, estheticians, electrologists, and instructors-in-training.
  17. ``Single-use,’’ when used to describe presterilized products or items, means prester­ilized products or items intended to be disposed of immediately after one use.
  18. ``Universal precautions’’ means the following guidelines and controls published by the centers for disease control (CDC), which are hereby adopted by reference:
    1. ``Guidelines for prevention of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus to health-care and public-safety workers: a response to P.L. 100-607, the health omnibus programs extension act of 1988,’’ as published in morbidity and mortality weekly report (MMWR) on June 23, 1989, vol. 38, no. S-6; and
    2. ``recommendations for preventing transmission of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B virus to patients during exposure-prone invasive procedures,’’ as published in morbidity and mortality weekly report (MMWR) on July 12, 1991, vol. 40, no. RR-08.