<p class="title">Salons must turn away people with fever, cold or cough and bar entry to those coming for a hair cut without face masks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The standard operating procedure from the BBMP, issued a day after the state allowed salons to open, also asks the salons to make hand sanitisers available at the doorstep and provide masks, hat and apron for their employees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Each customer should get a use-and-throw towel/paper sheet (to cover their shoulders,” the SOP stipulated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The utensils used to serve a customer must be disinfected for 30 minutes using 7% of Lysol. Salon owners must take care to ensure one-metre distance is maintained between customers and avoid crowding in the premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Door handles, floor of the saloon, lounge area, stairways and the whole premises must be disinfected twice a day with 1% sodium hypochlorite. “All disposables, including blades and razers, must be disinfected and handed over to a biomedical waste disposable agency,” the guidelines stated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shops should also display posters to create awareness about Covid-19. The posters can be downloaded at https://karunadu.karnataka.gov.in/hfw.</p>
<p class="title">Salons must turn away people with fever, cold or cough and bar entry to those coming for a hair cut without face masks.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The standard operating procedure from the BBMP, issued a day after the state allowed salons to open, also asks the salons to make hand sanitisers available at the doorstep and provide masks, hat and apron for their employees.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“Each customer should get a use-and-throw towel/paper sheet (to cover their shoulders,” the SOP stipulated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The utensils used to serve a customer must be disinfected for 30 minutes using 7% of Lysol. Salon owners must take care to ensure one-metre distance is maintained between customers and avoid crowding in the premises.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Door handles, floor of the saloon, lounge area, stairways and the whole premises must be disinfected twice a day with 1% sodium hypochlorite. “All disposables, including blades and razers, must be disinfected and handed over to a biomedical waste disposable agency,” the guidelines stated.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shops should also display posters to create awareness about Covid-19. The posters can be downloaded at https://karunadu.karnataka.gov.in/hfw.</p>