Document Citation: 26 CCR 16-984

Header:
CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS
TITLE 26. TOXICS
DIVISION 12. BOARD OF BARBERING AND COSMETOLOGY (TITLE 16)

Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
26 CCR 16-984 (2011)

§ 16-984. Disease and Infestation

(a) No establishment or school shall knowingly permit a person afflicted with an infection or parasitic infestation capable of being transmitted to a patron to serve patrons or train in the establishment or school.

(b) No establishment or school shall knowingly require or permit a licensee or student to work upon a person with an infection or parasitic infestation capable of being transmitted to the licensee or student.

(c) Infections or parasitic infestation capable of being transmitted between licensee or student and patron include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Cold, influenza or other respiratory illness accompanied by a fever, until 24 hours after resolution of the fever.

- Streptococcal pharyngitis ("Strep throat"), until 24 hours after treatment has been initiated, and 24 hours after resolution of fever.

- Purulent conjunctivitis ("pink eye"), until examined by a physician and approved for return to work.

- Pertussis ("whooping cough"), until five days of antibiotic therapy has been completed.

- Varicella ("chicken pox"), until the sixth day after onset of rash or sooner if all lesions have dried and crusted.

- Mumps, until nine days after onset of parotid gland swelling.

- Tuberculosis, until a physician or local health department authority states that the individual is noninfectious.

- Impetigo (bacterial skin infection), until 24 hours after treatment has begun.

- Pediculosis (head lice), until the morning after first treatment.

- Scabies ("crabs"), until after treatment has been completed.

(d) Blood-borne diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B (HBV), shall not be considered infectious or communicable diseases for the purpose of this section.

(e) No person working or training in an establishment or school shall massage any person upon a surface of the skin or scalp where such skin is inflamed, broken (e.g., abraded, cut) or where a skin infection or eruption is present.