occupational health and safety rules you must follow when preparing and maintaining electrical equipment for body treatments

Written Questions – Provide Body Treatments

1. Identify where to source (and or the website address) for the Health, Hygiene and Skin Penetration guidelines for your State. Identify three (3) examples of protocols that you must abide by for performing body treatments in regards to health and safety.

2. Identify the privacy legislation in your State or Territory in relation to the collection, security, use and disclosure of client medical information. Identify two (2) protocols for the use and collection of client information.

3. Briefly describe five (5) occupational health and safety rules you must follow when preparing and maintaining electrical equipment for body treatments.

4. What is the purpose of manufacturer instructions for the use of electrical equipment for body treatments?

5. When performing body treatments, give 3 examples of how you would work in a safe and

environmentally responsible manner.

6. How would you clean your electrical equipment and electrodes after a High Frequency body treatment?

7. Describe how the therapist should present themselves in regards to personal hygiene.

8. List five (5) things you need to consider when preparing the service area (treatment room) for body treatments?

9. Research the linen and laundry procedures for your salon or simulated workplace: outline the frequency and process of this.

10. Name five (5) contra-indications that apply specifically to body treatments involving electric machines.

11. When should you refer the client to a practitioner? What is the practitioner’s role?

12. Research the following contraindications that would prevent you from carrying out the body treatment and or requires clearance from a medical professional. For each, outline why they would be a complete contraindication to the treatment:

13. Research the following contraindications that would restrict you from carrying out the body treatment and or require you to modify the treatment plan. For each, outline how and why you would need to modify the treatment plan.

14. Identify how you would respond to the following adverse reactions experienced in the body treatment?

15. Research and identify and outline three (3) major skin chemicals.

16. Identify the process of incident reporting in your workplace or simulated salon environment: What is the process if a hazard or accident was to occur?

17. Identify how each client concern below can affect future treatment recommendations:

18. Complete the following table on body treatments, effects on the skin and body and the principles and properties of each (i.e. how they work). The first treatment has been completed for you as a sample.

19. Identify the meaning of the following four (4) anatomical positions of the body:

Distal –

Proximal –

Medial –

Lateral –

Anterior –

20. Outline information for each of the four (4) structural layers of the human body: Cells, tissues, organs and systems. For each include information on composition and function.

Cells –

Tissues –

Organs –

Systems –

21. Outline the relationship between the nervous system and skin sensation.

22. Outline the relationship between the lymphatic and circulatory system and functions of thermoregulation and homeostasis.

23. Research and identify two (2) postural and skeletal abnormalities.

24. For each muscle, identify the position and action:

25. Identify the location for each of the major bones:

26. Outline information for each of the Fitzpatrick Skin Types:

27. Identify and describe the two types of glands found in the skin and their normal functions.

28. What do endocrine glands secrete? Outline information on the following glands:

Pituitary –

Thyroid –

Thymus –

Adrenals –

Pancreas –

Ovaries –

Testes –