Occupational Safety and Health Administration

1. Part of the U.S. Department of Labor

2. Regulates and enforces safety and health standards in workplace related to:

     a. handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of products

     b. general safety in the workplace

     c. Employees right to know about hazardous materials

3. Require MSDS sheets

Material Safety Data Sheet

1. Contains information about hazardous ingredients, safe use and handling procedures, precautions, flammability, proper disposal guidelines, etc.

2. Required by federal law

3. Provided by Manufacturer

4. An MSDS must be available for all harmful products

Evironmental Protection Agency

1. The fedreal agency responsible for licensing disinfectants

Able to kill the bacteria that causes tuberculosis

1. Exist to protect customers' health, safety, and welfare

2. Include:

       a.  licensing agencies

       b. state boards of cosmetology

       c. commissions

       d. health departments

3. Require that workers follow certain procedures

4. Can issue penalties or revoke licenses for breaking the rules

1. Also called statutes

2. Written by the legislature

1. Also called regulations

2. More specific than laws

3. Written by the regulatory agency or board

1. One celled micro-organisms

2. Have both plant and animal characteristics

3. Can exist almost anywhere

4. Can only be seen with a microscope

5. Consist of an outer cell well containing liquid called protoplasm

1. Not harmful; not disease causing

2. Most bacteria are non-pathogenic bacteria

3. Nonpathogenic becteria can even be helpful to humans:

     a. help break down food

     b. help protect against infection

     c. help stimulate the immune response

1. Round shaped bacteria that appear singly or in groups

2. The types of groups are:

a. staphylococci

b. streptococci

c. diplococci

3. Don't show active motility, they are transmitted in the air

1. Pus forming cocci bacteria that grow in clusters like grapes

2. Cause abscesses, pustules, and boils

1. Pus-forming Cocci bacteria arranged in curved lines like a string of beads

2. Cause infections such as strep throat and blood poisoning

1. Spherical cocci bacteria that grow in pairs

2. Cause pnuemonia

1. Short rod-shaped bacteria

2. The most common bacteria

3. Cause diseases such as tetanus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and diptheria

4. Are motile 

1. spiral or corkscrew shaped bacteria

2. treponema papillida causes syphilis

3. borrelia burgdorferi causes lyme disease

4. Are motile

1. self-movement

2. Bacilli and spirilla bacteria exhibit motility (are motile)

1. AKA cilia

2. Slender, hairlike extensions used for motility (locomotion)

3. Spirilla and bacilli bacteria have them

4. Flagella whip around moving the bacteria through liquid

1. AKA Communicable or contagious

2. Able to be passed from person to person

1. An organism that grows, feeds, and shelters on or in another organism

2. contributes nothing to the host organism

3. Can be a plant or animal

1. A parasitic, submicroscopic particle that infects cells of living organisms

2. Can only reproduce by taking over the host cells reproduction

1. One of 2 stages in the life of a bacteria

2. When bacteria grow and reproduce

3. Happens in warm, dark or dirty places where food is available

1. Also known as the spore-forming stage

2. One of 2 stages in the life of a bacteria

3. Bacteria coat themselves in a waxy shell to withstand starvation, no water, or extreme temperatures

4. Bacteria in this stage can be blown about and cannot be killed by disinfectants

5. These are dangerous in surgery but little to no problem in a salon

1. When cells divide to form 2 new cells

2. New cells are called daughter cells

3. This is how bacteria reproduce

1. Determination of the nature of a disease by its symptoms

2. IE Saying what disease a person has

3. Can only be done by a doctor