28-24-13

Kansas Administrative Regulation No. 28-24-13

Infection Control Regulations for Practitioners and Facilities

28-24-13 Physical facilities.

1. The operator of each school or establishment shall meet the following requirements:
1. Keep the school or establishment well lighted and well ventilated by natural or mechanical methods that remove or exhaust fumes, vapor, or dust to prevent hazardous conditions from occurring and to allow the free flow of air in a room in proportion to the size and the capacity of the room; and
2. keep the floors, walls, ceilings, furniture and other fixtures and apparatus, and all other exposed surfaces in each school or establishment clean, free of dust, hair and other debris, and in good repair at all times. All curtains shall be kept carefully laundered or chemically cleaned.
2.  
1. Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2), if a room used for residential purposes is also used for or is adjacent to a room used for the practice of cosmetology, nail technol­ogy, esthetics, or electrology, then a solid partition shall separate the portion of the premises used for residential purposes from the licensed area. The partition may contain a door, if it remains closed, except for entering and leaving.
2. Each establishment that has an initial license issued on or after December 31, 2007 and that is located in a residence shall have a separate, outside entrance to the establish­ment.
3. If a room used for nonlicensed business purposes is also used for or is adjacent to a room used for the practice of cosmetology, nail technology, esthetics, or electrology and if the board of cosmetology, upon consultation with the secretary of health and environ­ment, determines that the proximity of the licensed or nonlicensed activities poses a pos­sible threat to the health of the employees, the consumers, or the public, then the operator of the school or establishment may be required by the board to meet one or both of the following requirements:
1. A solid partition shall separate the portion of the premises used for nonlicensed business purposes from the licensed area. The partition may contain a door, if it remains closed, except for entering and leaving.
2. A separate, outside entrance shall be provided for the school or establishment.
4. Each school or establishment shall have a safe water supply.
5. Each establishment shall have at least one restroom. Each restroom shall include at least one working toilet and one hand-washing sink, with a liquid soap dispenser and ei­ther disposable towels or an air dryer. The operator shall keep each restroom in a sanitary condition. Each restroom shall be located within the building in which the establishment is housed.
6. Each school shall have at least two restrooms. Each restroom shall have at least one working toilet and one hand-washing sink, with a liquid soap dispenser and either dispos­able towels or an air dryer. The operator shall keep each restroom in a sanitary condition.
7. The following requirements shall apply to each mobile establishment:
1. All equipment shall be securely anchored to the mobile establishment.
2. No services shall be performed while the mobile establishment is in motion.
3. Each mobile establishment shall have the following:
1. A hand-washing sink that has hot and cold running water;
2. a self-contained supply of potable water. The water tank shall have a capacity of at least 100 gallons, and the holding tanks shall have at least the same capacity; and
3. one or more self-contained, recirculating, flush chemical toilets with a holding tank.