Possibility to open also Sundays and Mondays, separate workstations of at least two meters, waiting areas for customers outside the shop. These are some of the guidelines for hairdressers and beauticians indicated in the Inail and ISS technical document approved yesterday by the Scientific and Technical Committee in view of the reopening of the activities scheduled for May 18. General rules, INAIL points out, which concern a sector considered to be at "medium-high" risk involving around 140 thousand companies and 260 thousand employees.
"In order to ensure accessibility to services after a long period of closure and in consideration of the measures to be adopted, which will likely reduce the number of treatments simultaneously - reads the document - it is appropriate to provide for the possibility of allowing derogations from the days of closing and allow the extension of the opening hours of the premises ".
To rationalize the internal spaces and allow social distancing, experts also point out, it will be necessary "to encourage the creation of waiting areas" for customers "also outside the premises, allowing where possible the occupation of public land in derogation". The Inail then indicates a whole series of "general organizational measures": they range from the compulsory reservation (phase in which the required types of treatment must be "predetermined") to the separation barriers between the various areas, from the provision of a minimum distance of at least two meters between the stations to eliminate "magazines and any other object that may be of mixed use in the room". The temperature must also be taken for customers, given to them an "individual disposable bag / bag to collect personal effects", to privilege payments with ATMs and contactless systems. Both for customers and employees there is obviously an obligation to wear a mask (for workers also nitrile gloves and face shields) and disposable aprons and towels must be used, as well as sanitizing the workstations and tools after each treatment and prepare dispensers with sanitizing solutions.
Experts also enter into social relations between the customer and the shop owner or employee. It is necessary, they write, "to privilege the conversation with the customer through the mirror and carry out the procedures while remaining behind the customer in all possible cases".
A chapter of the technical document is dedicated to beauticians, a sector in which "risk prevention measures from biological agents" are already in use. But this is not enough: for face treatments that require the use of steam, experts explain, alternative operations will have to be envisaged and in any case they can only be done in separate rooms. Saunas, Turkish baths and whirlpools must also remain closed and all surfaces of the beauty cabin must be cleaned and disinfected at each change of customer. Workers are expected to use Ffp2 and ffp3 masks and not surgical ones, in addition to protective masks or visors. (HANDLE).