Hair salons and barbershops reopening during COVID-19 must implement several safety measures, including taking customer temperatures, maintaining social distancing between stations, limiting occupancy, and requiring masks. Workstations should be rearranged or limited to ensure at least 6 feet of distance. High-touch surfaces need sanitizing, and employees must wear protective equipment like masks. A case study hair salon reopened by removing furniture, adding sneeze guards, and spacing out fewer active stations using markers.

1. REOPENING GUIDANCE FOR HAIRDRESSERS,
BEAUTY SALONS AND BARBERSHOPS

2. The employer’s obligations
Prevention and protection measures
Hairdressers and personal care industry in general (barbers and beauticians’ services) that are getting set to reopen, should adopt the
following anti-COVID-19 safety measures:
• prepare adequate information on prevention measures,
• allow customer access only by booking and keep the attendance list for a period of 14 days,
• detect body temperature, preventing access in case of temperature> 37.5 ° C,
• allow customers to stay inside the premises, limited to the time necessary to provide the service or treatment,
• allow the simultaneous presence of a limited number of customers based on the capacity of the room,
• waiting rooms must be closed and lines should be avoided, to the extent possible,
• rearrange spaces to guarantee safe distance according to logistical and structural conditions, to ensure that at least 2-meter distancing
(at least 6 feet) is maintained both between the individual workstations and between the customers,
• delimit the work area, where possible, with adequate sneeze guards,
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3. The employer’s obligations
Prevention and protection measures
• provide alcohol solutions for hand hygiene of customers and operators, with the recommendation of frequent hand washing,
• provide tissues in the salon/treatment room, with no-touch dispensers
• avoid contact with high-touch surfaces, remove magazines and product brochures,
• operators and customers must wear protection masks and keep the distance compatible with the specific service,
• in case of services that require a close distance (especially in beauty salons), staff must wear the FFP2 protective visor or mask without
valve,
• staff must frequently sanitize hands with hydro-alcoholic solutions and use disposable jackets / aprons,
• differentiate common use gloves from gloves used for special treatments,
• ensure adequate cleaning and disinfection of work surfaces before serving a new customer and adequate disinfection of equipment and
accessories, along with handrails and door handles, sanitizing workstations after each customer service and ensure regular cleaning
and disinfection of toilets,
• encourage regular and frequent air exchange and totally exclude the air recirculation function in air conditioning systems,
• equip the cash desk with sneeze guards and encourage electronic payment methods.
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4. Reopening a hair salon: a case study
Project floor plan
The project is compliant with the COVID-19 contagion risk mitigation
measures.
Project created with Edificius
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Project floor plan | Entrance
Entrance
The entrance area is the one that has undergone a
major transformation. The waiting area was, in fact,
completely rearranged: the sofas and the table with
magazines were removed, and a large built-in
wardrobe was created for storing overcoats, bags
and other customers’ personal belongings.
A table with sanitizing gel, a pack of disposable
masks, a pack of disposable gloves, a waste bin with
pedal opening and signs with the main signs to follow
in the salon have been positioned along the wall
opposite the entrance.
A dispenser with sanitizing gel and for measuring
body temperature has been placed near the entrance
door. In addition, sneeze guards in transparent,
waterproof and sanitizable material have been
mounted at the cash desk.Project created with Edificius
Reopening a hair salon: a case study
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Floor plan | Styling area
Styling area
The actual salon has not undergone many
transformations: the number of workstations used at
the same time has only been reduced. For each
section (male and female), the styling and cutting
stations were reduced from 3 to 2 and those for
washing from 2 to 1. Specifically, the stations were
not physically removed but only the use. A column
for the distribution of sanitizing gel has been
positioned near all workstations.
Path marker stickers have been placed on the floor
to help respect path ways and the minimum
interpersonal distance.
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Reopening a hair salon: a case study
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Floor plan | Styling area
Styling area servizi
The image shows the detail of a hairdressing
salon floor plan where:
• only non-contiguous workstations are used at
the same time (circled in green),
• the use of workstations (indicated in red) that do
not respect the distance has been limited
• the minimum distance between the stations in
use has been verified,
• sanitizing gel dispensers have been installed (in
yellow),
• social distancing markers are indicated on the
floor.
Reopening a hair salon: a case study
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Project created with Edificius
Reopening a hair salon: a case study
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Download Edificius
The hair salon reopening project has been created using Edificius, the architectural BIM
design software
(the full trial version can be downloaded for free at www.accasoftware.com)
Hair salon reopening
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