An award-winning hairdresser has criticised new rules going before the European Parliament that could force stylists to wear rubber gloves. The award winning hairdresser has has hit out after new guidelines emerged from Europe calling for hairdressers to be banned from wearing high heels during work and told to wear arm-length rubber gloves while working, in case of cuts.
The health and safety directives also order stylists to wear "non-slip soles" and bans some type of jewellery as unhygienic.
The deal with be submitted to Brussels to become an EU-wide directive binding on all 27 states.
However, it has been said that increasing red tape and workplace guidelines will threaten the survival of some salons.
In addition, most hairdressers would consider it utterly impractical to cut hair wearing rubber gloves.
It is alleged that these proposed rules have little or no bearing on day-to-day reality.
It is well known that health and safety is important in any industry, but so is common sense. It is also known that the vast majority of what is being recommended is, in fact, already covered by UK health and safety law. The main difference is UK Law retains enough flexibility to allow salon owners to make reasonable, risk-assessed decisions about the day-to-day running of their businesses while ensuring workers are protected.
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It is very important that employees always follow safety measures before starting the day of work. A work accident compensation is entitled to them if they had an accident due to some equipment malfunction, they can file a claim against their employer negligence's for providing a defective equipments.
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