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Barbershop Internal Audit
Run an internal audit of your barbershop this autumn: 90 minutes, 7 areas, specific questions. Find the problems before a Sanepid inspector does.
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Tips on Sanepid inspections, sanitary documentation, disinfection and sterilisation for barbershop and salon owners.
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Hygiene & Disinfection Procedures
A Sick Barber at Work
When can a barber with a cold work, and when must they stay home? The traffic-light rule, the owner's duties and preparing the premises for infection season.
Finance & Risk in Barbershop Business
Selling Cosmetics in a Barbershop
Want to sell pomades and oils in your barbershop? Check the distributor's duties, the cash register, goods complaints and display rules with testers.
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Multilingual Team & PL/EN Setup
Your First Barbershop Employee
Hiring your first barber? The contract, initial examinations, the sanitary-epidemiological certificate.
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
Cosmetics in a Barbershop
Expiry dates, the period after opening (PAO), storage and application hygiene. See how to sort out the product shelf before an inspector looks at it.
Sanitary Inspection Without Stress
A Client Complaint to Sanepid
A client complained to Sanepid? See how a complaint-triggered inspection unfolds.
Finance & Risk in Barbershop Business
The Most Common Barbershop Sanitary
A Sanepid (sanitary inspectorate) inspector walks in on Wednesday at 10:00. He isn't looking for theatre. He's looking for compliance.
Finance & Risk in Barbershop Business
Barbershop Liability Insurance
You're shaving a beard with a razor, the client twitches, and a cut appears on the cheek. Usually that's a plaster and an apology.
Mobile Barber & On-Site Services
Barber at Events and Weddings
Saturday, 11:00, the wedding suite. The groom and five groomsmen are waiting for a fresh fade before the ceremony.
Multilingual Team & PL/EN Setup
PL/EN Instructions for a Multilingual
At your chairs you have Paweł from Poland, Denys from Ukraine and Niko from Georgia. Each of them cuts brilliantly.
Multilingual Team & PL/EN Setup
Sanitary Training for a Barbershop Team
A Sanepid (sanitary inspectorate) inspector walks in on Friday afternoon, right in the middle of the rush.
Finance & Risk in Barbershop Business
Booth Rental: Chair Rental and the
You have five chairs in the barbershop and three of them are in use. Bartek gets in touch, a good barber with his own client base, who wants to work at your…
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
Complaints About Barbering Services
The client gets up from the chair, looks in the mirror and says: "This isn't what I asked for." The beard trimmed too short, the line different from what he…
Mobile Barber & On-Site Services
Sterilisation in the Field for a Mobile
In the salon you have an autoclave on the counter. In the field you have a backpack and half an hour between clients.
Mobile Barber & On-Site Services
Mobile Barber: Sanitary Requirements
A client calls: "Will you come and cut my hair at home before the wedding?" You say "sure", pack the clippers into a backpack and set off.
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
A Barber's Personal Protective Equipment
A barber leans over the client, the razor glides across the cheek, fingers touch the skin - and here a question is born.
Multilingual Team & PL/EN Setup
Barber Onboarding
A new barber turns up on Monday. "Watch Kamil and do what he does." The problem: Kamil has his own habits, half of which skip the procedure.
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
OSH in a Barbershop
You are hiring your first barber. You sign the contract, show them the station, hand over the clippers - and it feels like that is everything.
Multilingual Team & PL/EN Setup
Hiring a Barber from Ukraine
Tuesday morning. Denys walks into your barbershop, a barber with six years of experience from Kyiv.
Opening a Barbershop
Notifying Sanepid When Opening a
The premises ready, the chairs set up, the razors sharpened. And suddenly a friend throws out: "Have you notified Sanepid?" Silence falls.
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
Beard Dye Allergies and the Patch Test
A client wants a darker beard for his brother's wedding. You trust the dye you have been using for months, you apply it - and two days later you get a message:…
Opening a Barbershop
Barbershop Premises Requirements
You have spotted the perfect unit - a nice shopfront, a good address, an affordable rent. It is 22 square metres. "Enough for two chairs," you think.
Salon Organization & Operational Risk
First Aid in a Barbershop
Friday afternoon, a queue of clients, a barber working fast on a beard with a razor - and one careless stroke. Blood.
Opening a Barbershop
Fiscal Cash Register for a Barbershop in
The first client sits in the chair, you give him a classic fade.
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Barbershop Waste
You finish a razor shave, swap the blade and drop the used one into the ordinary bin under the wash basin. Routine.
Opening a Barbershop
Ventilation and Water in a Barbershop
You open the barbershop door in the morning and that smell hits you - a mix of hairspray, foam and yesterday's chemicals.
Sanitary Documentation in Practice
Barbershop Inspection Book
The inspector wraps up the visit, writes up the report and, on the way out, asks: "the inspection book, please." You reach for it, and there - nothing.