Each operator of a business that offers body piercing services shall do all of the following:

(1) Maintain procedures for ensuring that the technicians who perform body piercing procedures are adequately trained to perform the procedures properly;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-38-307

  • Body piercing: includes ear piercing except when the ear piercing procedure is performed on the ear with an ear piercing gun. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Business: means any entity that provides body piercing services or procedures for compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • operator: means a person who controls, operates, conducts or manages a body piercing establishment, whether or not the operator is actually engaging in body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes at fifteen (15) pounds of pressure and at a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250°. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
  • Sterilize: means a process by which all forms of microbial life, including bacteria, viruses, spores, and fungi, are destroyed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
(2) Comply with the safety and sanitation requirements for preventing transmission of infectious diseases;
(3) Require the technicians who perform body piercing procedures to disinfect and sterilize all invasive equipment or parts of equipment used in performing the procedures; and
(4) Ensure that weekly tests of the business’s heat sterilization devices are performed that indicate whether the devices are killing microorganisms. The operator shall maintain documentation that the weekly tests are being performed, as well as the results of each test.
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