DAILY CLEANING PROTOCOL

UPON ENTRY: 

  • Upon entering work, wash your hands immediately. If you are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19, let us know two hours before your scheduled shift. You will be asked to stay home to make sure you are not sick. If you do present more symptoms, you will be expected to quarantine for two weeks.

Symptoms of COVID-19 are as follows:

  • Cough

  • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

  • Fever

  • Chills

  • Muscle pain

  • Sore throat

  • New loss of taste or smell

  • Trouble breathing

  • Persistent pain or pressure in the chest

  • New confusion

  • Inability to wake or stay awake

  • fBluish lips or face

  • Leave as many personal items in your car as possible. Sanitize your phone upon entering work. Try and limit your interaction with your phone during interactions with clients and be mindful of keeping your phone sanitized. Make sure to take personal food items home at the end of the night and keep all common areas very clean and free of clutter. No sharing food right now. Sorry people, we just have to be extra careful.

THROUGHOUT THE DAY: 

  • Check voicemails on the shop phone throughout the day and follow up on each item in a timely manner. If you cannot follow up on a message, please forward the voicemail to Brooke.

  • YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANY CLIENT THAT IS PRESENTING SYMPTOMS OF BEING SICK.

  • Wear a mask and protective clothing at all times when working with clients. 

  • Wash hands in between clients, after touching your face/mask, before and after using the restroom, and before leaving work.

  • Face shields should be worn if requested by a client 

  • Use paper neck strips and a clean cape for each client.

  • Limit as much face to face contact with clients as possible.

  • Limit physical interaction with other stylists and other stylists’ clients as much as possible.

  • Wipe down the shampoo bowl, sanitize and clean hair out of the trap after every use.

  • Change out BARBICIDE daily.

  • Clean Brushes are in bins on the barber bar. Place dirty brushes in closed containers on rolling station carts after use. CLEAN HAIR OFF OF BRUSHES THAT YOU HAVE USED AND WASH AT THE END OF SHIFT OR RIGHT AFTER USE!

  • Hand sanitizer will be made available to clients outside of both shops. 

  • We will have PPE packages available for clients. This will be an add-on service. Welcome the clients and encourage them to wash their hands each time they enter the salon. Since we will only be allowing one client per stylist/chair (no waiting area), clients may need to wait in their cars or outside. After you have sanitized your workstation, you can call/text your client (from the shop phone) and let them know you are ready for them. Again, if they were in earlier picking up their PPE and then went to wait in their car or outside, please encourage them to wash their hands again upon reentry. 

  • Offer the option to not blow dry hair if it will not affect the service you are performing. Blow drying is fine as long as you and your client are wearing masks.

  • Sweep up your station after each client (help other staff with sweeping when you have time as long, as you are keeping distance from other staffs’ clients)

  • Keep stations tidy. Disinfect all tools and stations in between each client, including the entire chair. Dirty brushes should be taken to the back sink and should be cleaned and disinfected immediately after use. Wipe down/disinfect all cutting and other tools (e.g., combs, brushes, clips) between clients and at the beginning and end of each shift. Alternatively, have an ample supply of combs and other tools at your disposal and place used items in a closed container. All implements should then be disinfected and washed at the end of your day. 

  • Nail area should be kept clean between clients. Use the tiny broom and dustpan to sweep between clients and spot mop and wipe down all surfaces with disinfectant cleaner between clients. 

  • All nail tools should be disinfected between use or be single-use only. Wipe down all nail polish bottles and any containers you or the client have touched in between appointments.

  • All hair product containers and facial product containers should be wiped down with disinfectant cleaner after appointments as well. Clean gloves should be used or a clean tool to remove products from containers to keep products sanitary. 

  • Clean color bowls out in a timely manner (do NOT leave in sink) or ask for help if you are running behind

  • Put used back bar items in the designated bin so we can update inventory and reorder appropriately. Keep in mind this includes the following: empty nail polish bottles, hair styling products, empty hair color bottles or color tabs from boxes. If there is no packaging for an item that we are out of or running low on, please write it on the list on the front desk and notify Brooke. Additional stock of backbar items are kept at the Winnebago shop. 

  • When you open a permanent color box, rip off the front tab of the box (the tab that indicates the color) and put it in the used inventory bin so we can reorder color. Write color on the box and put in used color shelving if the tube is partially used. If you use the entire tube, then you can toss the tube, but be sure to put the front tab from the box into the used inventory bin. 

  • When you use Hnectar; put empty bottles in the bin for reorder. If the bottle is half empty after use, put a dot sticker on the bottle as an indicator that it is not a full bottle and place it back on the Hnectar shelf. The dot stickers are in the drawer below the drying rack. The color of the sticker you use does not matter. 

  • Hair Color Procedures: Reminder to charge for add-on color. All of the pricing structures are back by the color bar. Add the color add-on price to your service base price. Write down your color formula and you can keep track of that in your client’s profile on Booker. 

  • All dirty laundry must stay in a closed container. Wear gloves when working with dirty laundry.

  • Answering the phone: If you are doing color, do not step away. If you are performing any other service, excuse yourself and step away to answer the phone. Make sure to check voicemail throughout the day and always use the call log book to write down messages (avoid Post It notes, as they easily get lost). Sanitize the shop phone each time after use.

  • Take trash or recycling out throughout the day if they get too full. Wear gloves when working with trash cans.

  • Cut wax strips if they are getting low

  • Put away dishes and wear gloves when doing so

  • Clean/Dust/Organize/Sanitize backbar and retail product if you have downtime

  • Restock small water bottles. We will only be serving bottled water at this time, and sparingly. Please limit it to clients with long appointments. 

  • Limit client interactions with retail products. Pick out their retail purchases for them and sanitize them before placing them in retail bags.

  • If you have any free time throughout the day, use the time to clean and sanitize common surfaces and the bathroom. Sanitize the door knobs before/after using the bathroom. 

  • Avoid touching door knobs, if possible. Wipe down door knobs and door panel edges (where one might touch if they are not touching the door knob) frequently, as clients will be using them as well.

  • Review the State of Wisconsin suggested guidelines for small businesses and salons and barber shops. Find the guidelines HERE (addendum). Make sure to review CDC guidelines  (addendum) on how to safely and properly wear and remove a face mask.

  • Review Safety and Sanitation Statutes that you are governed under by your licensure. Find information HERE (addendum).

MULTICIDE (USE MULTI-CIDE ON AS MANY SURFACES AS POSSIBLE):

Product Overview

  • Hospital grade, EPA registered, broad-spectrum disinfectant

  • Anti-rust formulation will not corrode surfaces and implements

  • Dilutes 1-ounce per gallon

  • Good for all uses including:

  • Whirlpool spas

  • Hard surfaces - Countertop, tanning bed, and gym equipment

  • Clippers and trimmer blades

  • Metal implements - Shears and stainless steel implements

  • All other surfaces - Keyboard, door handles, toilet seat, sink, and equipment. Can be used with ForPro Premium PUR Cotton Wipes. Spray on and apply. 

  • Non-metal tools - Brushes, combs, and rollers. Add solution to ForPro MULTI-CIDE Disinfectant Jar and keep immersed until ready to use.

  • ForPro MULTI-CIDE Hospital Grade Sanitizer & Disinfectant is a bactericidal, fungicide, and virucidal cleaner. It is EPA registered and effective against athlete’s foot fungus, Aspergillus niger, Hepatitis B & C, HIV-1 and other virucidals. The anti-rust formulation prevents corrosion of implements and hard surfaces. Dilution is 1-ounce per gallon.

BARBICIDE

We have received documentation from the EPA that BARBICIDE® is approved for efficacy against Human Coronavirus, including COVID-19. While no company has been able to receive actual COVID-19 samples and put them through the rigorous testing required, the EPA considers efficacy against Human Coronavirus to include COVID-19. 

To reiterate how you should be addressing this individually to protect your family, yourself and your business, take note of the following:

  1. Practice proper infection control. Cleaning & disinfection, as directed by the boards of every state. These rules require proper disinfection of every non-porous implement prior to use. In addition, consideration of disinfection of common use surfaces such as back bars, reception areas, computers and phones should be considered.

  2. Remember contact time. The most important step of the disinfection process is to allow the chemical time to work! Read all disinfectant labels to know the correct time frame. For BARBICIDE® concentrate, that contact time is 10 minutes and for BARBICIDE® Wipes the contact time is 2 minutes.

  3. Hand hygiene. Wash hands with soap and water for 30 seconds prior to every client, after eating, smoking or using the restroom. Where allowed by state law/rules, hand sanitizer is acceptable, except after eating, smoking or using the restroom.

  4. Keep your hands to yourself! Handshaking needs to be replaced with other methods of introduction. While handshaking is seen as a polite gesture, during cold and flu season it is a superhighway for viruses to move quickly in groups.

  5. Finally, keep your immune system healthy so it is prepared if you are exposed to anything! Get plenty of sleep, water, good nutrition and most of all, stop smoking!

Best Regards,

The BARBICIDE® Team

OPENING CHECKLIST FOR MBH | ATWOOD:

  • Put out the outside chairs

  • Turn on lights (two switches by front door, back two switches by shampoo bowl flip the opposite way. Very back bar light lights by shampoo bowl stay on overnight.)

  • Turn on bluetooth speaker (above the door) and then turn on Music

  • Grab the cash box from the vault. Count the cash and fill out the cash count in Booker and put the cash box behind the desk.

  • Switch on wax pot by shampoo bowl

  • Switch on wax pot in vault on Thursday and Saturdays 

  • Turn on Fans/AC in summer. Check Radiator knobs in winter.

  • Check water bottle stock, refill if need be.

  • Check Towels

  • Turn ‘close’ sign to ‘open’

  • Unlock the shop door

CLOSING CHECKLIST FOR MBH | ATWOOD:

  • Clean and sterilize all brushes, tools, and implements. All staff must clean their own station and tools and place things out to dry or in a closed container before the end of their shift. Be sure to empty your Barbicide jars nightly.

  • Turn off both wax pots

  • Turn off fans/AC. Check radiator knobs in winter

  • Make sure fans are off in the vault 

  • Check water bottle stock, refill if need be. 

  • Refill hand soap, Multicide, paper towel, and toilet paper 

  • Check towels 

  • Turn off music and speaker and plug in the iPad and iPhone, so they are fully charged for the next day

  • Turn ‘open’ sign to ‘close’ 

  • Bring in outside chairs 

  • Count the cash box and lock up cash box and put in vault 

  • All personal beverages, belongings, etc. should be cleaned up/taken home each night.

  • Lock up the shop