28-24-8

Kansas Administrative Regulation No. 28-24-8

Infection Control Regulations for Practitioners and Facilities

28-24-8 Instruments and supplies.

1. Each licensee or apprentice shall use a sanitary neck strip or towel to keep the full-length protective covering from coming in direct contact with the neck of each consumer receiving cosmetology services.
2. Each licensee or apprentice shall dispose of any supplies or instruments that come in direct contact with a consumer and cannot be disinfected or sterilized. These supplies or instruments shall be disposed of in a covered waste receptacle immediately after the single use.
3. Each licensee or apprentice shall immediately dispose of any single-use material coming into contact with blood or other bodily fluids. The contaminated material shall be double-bagged, sealed, and disposed of. All needles and any other sharp items shall be disposed of in a sharps container.
4. Each sanding band used on an electric file shall be a single-use item. The licensee or apprentice shall dispose of each sanding band after it is used.
5. In the practice of electrology, all needles shall be single-use items. The licensee or apprentice shall dispose of each needle after it is used.
6. Each licensee or apprentice shall properly disinfect each metal bit for an electric file after each use on a consumer and then shall store the bit in a clean, closed, and labeled container until its next use.
7. No licensee or apprentice shall be permitted to carry any instrument or supplies in or on a garment or uniform, including an instrument belt and an instrument organizer.