David Vidra Health Educators

This Ontario best practice document applies to any facility, service or person offering services where there is a risk of exposure to blood, such as, but not limited to: hairdressing and barber shops, tattoo and body piercing studios, electrolysis, acupuncture and various aesthetic services. The following guidelines comprise general recommendations for all personal service settings and equipment. Click [...]

TECHNI-CARE® IS ANTIMICROBIAL AND EFFECTIVE AGAINST MRSA. The product can be used to shave the client, as a skin prep and for the application of stencils.
The exact protocol for TECHNI-CARE® use in tattoo procedures is outlined here.

BARRI-CARE® will replace all Vaseline® and/or A&D® products used within the traditional and cosmetic tattoo industries. BARRI-CARE® is a superior product of the highest grade petroleum base , whereas other petroleum-based products’ are of a much lower grade and are meant only [...]

Although usually harmless, Staphylococcus aureus (staph) may occasionally get into the body and cause infections through breaks in the skin, such as abrasions, cuts, wounds, tattooing, body piercing, or surgical incisions.  These infections may be mild, such as pimples or boils, or serious, such as an infection of the blood stream, bones, or joints.

With the increase in popularity of antiseptic hand gels over the past 6 years, we have seen a significant decrease of compliance with hand washing. However, hand gels were never intended as a replacement for hand washing, but to be used only in cases where hand washing was not feasible.
Per Federal law, hand washing [...]

Skin infections with MRSA are transmitted by close skin-to-skin contact with an infected person or by contact with objects or surfaces contaminated with MRSA. Most often MRSA infections occur in hospital patients; however, reports of MRSA infections acquired outside of a hospital setting (community-acquired) are becoming more common.
As with ordinary strains of Staphylococcus aureus, some [...]

Public health officials advised people who received tattoos or piercing at Moonshin a Cooksville tattoo and piercing parlour, between March 2005 and last month to get blood tests.
Inspection by health officials revealed that the tattoo parlour failed to keep adequate maintenance records for its sterilization equipment. It is estimated this negligence of proper sterilization can put nearly [...]

Everything is setup for the first of what we hope to be a recurring series of BodyArtPro sponsored  Health Educators classes in Toronto. Sunday we have the Bloodborne Pathogens and The Principles of Infection Control class and Monday will be Sterilization: From Start to Finish.  Big Thanks to Philip Barbosa (BMEzine Staff) for coordinating the event and for helping setup [...]