Higher risk personal appearance service licence - Gladstone Regional Council - Queensland

Description

You will require this licence if you have a business which provides higher risk personal appearance services. Higher risk personal appearance services refer to skin penetration procedures in which the release of blood or other bodily fluid is an expected result.

Examples of higher risk personal appearance services include:

  • body piercing
  • cosmetic tattooing
  • tattooing
  • tattoo removal using micro needles.

You can only provide these services from the premises stated on the licence.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

If you intend to operate higher risk personal appearance services, your business should be designed and constructed to:

  • be adequate for the types of services and activities conducted
  • provide adequate space for all activities and for all equipment to be used or stored
  • allow easy cleaning / sanitising and sterilising procedures of all structures and equipment.

Your premises must be designed so that the flow of service is in one direction: from product receipt, to storage, preparation, providing the customer with a service, and finally to disposal and / or sanitising and / or sterilising of equipment. This is to reduce the infection risks associated with the process.

Your business must also include:

  • a clean zone within a room, or rooms, where clean or sterilised items are stored and a hand basin is located
  • a dirty or contaminated zone within a room, or rooms, where contaminated items are placed to await cleaning, and where the cleaning sinks, instrument washers and sterilisers are located.

You may also require development approval if you are conducting the following activities:

  • starting a new personal appearance service business
  • changing the type of activity (e.g. from office space to tattooist)
  • re-establishing a personal appearance service business that was abandoned
  • changing the scale or intensity of an existing business (e.g. increasing the number of chairs or expanding into the next unit)
  • carrying out building work
  • carrying out plumbing or drainage work.

Duration

No more than three years

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $655.00 -
Apply Inspection All $337.00 Re-inspection fee
Apply Inspection All $378.00 -
Apply Licence All $468.00 -
Transfer Transfer All $140.00 -
Vary Variation All $342.00 Application for alteration to premises

Application process

Apply

To apply for this licence, you must:

  • complete the approved application form
  • pay the prescribed fee.

With your application you must include:

  • A plan showing all equipment, benches, storage cupboards, sinks, non-hand touch hand basin, door / window openings, location of staff areas and chemical / cleaning equipment storage areas to a suitable scale (e.g. 1:100).
  • Cross-sectional drawings through separate areas of the storage and customer service areas. Details are to include finishes to walls, floors and ceilings, heights of fixtures from floors and benches, junctions of walls and floors and lighting provisions to a suitable scale (1:150).
  • A site plan showing location of premises regarding other premises, including wastewater treatment devices, waste storage area and staff toilets, to a suitable scale.
  • Details of location and types of sterilising equipment and laundry facilities for sanitising towels, wraps and any other relevant items.

Lodgement process

Lodge

To notify the council of your intention to provide services as a mobile business, you must provide:

  • your higher risk personal appearance service licence
  • your employees' infection control qualification
  • the dates you intend to operate
  • locations you intend to operate.

Notification must be by phone, email, letter, fax or other means of written communication. If you notify the council by phone you must immediately confirm the details provided by letter, fax, email or other means of written communication.

Additional information

If you are operating in more than one location within one council area, you only require one licence as long as all locations are on your licence.

If you have a mobile business, you only need a licence from the council where you store your vehicle. You can use your licence all over Queensland, as long as you notify the council at least seven days before you intend to operate in their area. It may be less than seven days if the council agrees to the lesser period.

Businesses may have in place a COVID Safe Framework. This refers to:

  • where there is an approved plan for the business, activity or undertaking
  • where there is no approved plan and a COVID Safe Checklist is in place
  • where the business elects not to operate under an approved plan and instead elects to use a COVID Safe Checklist.

As of 20 October 2020, if your business is following an industry COVID Safe Plan, you will be able to offer services to the maximum number of people you can fit on your premises. You must comply with the rule of having one person per four square metres for indoor spaces greater than 200 metres. Smaller indoor spaces less than 200 square metres can have one person per two square metres, up to a maximum of 50 people at a time. Businesses must ensure everyone is kept 1.5 metres from others (outside their family or group) where possible. This is to be maintained by all workers and visitors.

Businesses which elect to not have in place a COVID Safe Framework may only operate the business for a maximum of 50 people, with no more than one person per four square metres and physical distancing observed.

Personal appearance businesses must collect contact information from patrons, contractors, and staff. This is for contact tracing purposes and the information must be destroyed after 56 days.

Offences exist in relation to higher risk personal appearance services. Legislative requirements must be complied with to ensure you are not in contravention of any legislative provisions.

Administering agency

Gladstone Regional Council

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.

Please use these contact details for help or more information:

Gladstone Regional Council
Operating address: 101 Goondoon Street
Gladstone, Queensland 4680
Mailing address: PO BOX 29
Gladstone, Queensland 4680
Phone: 1300 733 343
Phone: 07 4970 0700
Fax: 07 4975 8500
Email: info@gladstone.qld.gov.au
Website: Gladstone Regional Council (Opens in new window)