2014 Tennessee Code
Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 38 - Tattoos and Body Piercing
Part 3 - Body Piercing
§ 62-38-307 - Continuing requirements of body piercing business.
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;
(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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