NYC TATTOO LICENSE UPDATED 2026
EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - ✔✔Virus that causes AIDS. Takes from 1 to
6 months for blood to test positive for antibodies after virus enters the body.
✔✔Immunization - ✔✔Method to produce immunity (protection from infection) using
vaccines
✔✔Infection - ✔✔Condition resulting from presence and multiplication of
microorganisms in the body. Not all show signs of symptoms but it is still transmittable
✔✔Infection control - ✔✔Practices and strategies that aim to minimize the risk of
spreading infections, prevents client to client, client to tattooist, and tattooist to client
spreading.
✔✔Infectious waste - ✔✔Includes human waste, animal waste, and objects and
materials contaminated with blood or bodily fluids with disease causing microorganisms
or viruses. Items saturated in blood, needles and syringes and other shapes should be
handled with precaution
✔✔Instrument - ✔✔Tool used to perform a specific function (ie needle) usually made
from stainless steel to withstand heat during sterilization
✔✔Latex - ✔✔Natural rubber made from sap of tree, (gloves made from)
✔✔Latex Allergy - ✔✔Reaction to protein in sap of tree.
✔✔Microorganism - ✔✔Aka a germ, bacteria, virus, or fungus
✔✔Mucous membrane - ✔✔Sheets of tissue that line various openings of the body
such as the mouth, nose, eyes, or genitals
, ✔✔Pathogen - ✔✔Microorganism that can cause disease in humans
✔✔Regulated infectious waste - ✔✔All waste, visibly dripping with blood that could
potentially be contaminated with disease causing microorganisms, presents a
recognized infectious hazard to waste disposal workers and environment if appropriate
precautions are not used
✔✔Reusable - ✔✔Instrument designated by manufacturer as suitable for reprocessing
and reuse.
✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Any article that can pierce the skin and cause punctures or cuts.
Needles and disposable razors
✔✔Single use - ✔✔Instrument or gloves labeled for one use only, to be discarded after
use
✔✔Stencil - ✔✔Single use paper stencil
✔✔Sterile gloves - ✔✔Single use that are sterile at time of use, package labels them as
sterile
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔Process that destroys all forms of microbial life including the most
resistant forms (ie bacterial spores by heat, chemicals, or gases)
✔✔Standard precautions - ✔✔Work practices that require everyone to assume that
blood and body fluids are a potential source of infection, independent of perceived risk.
Protective barriers and safe workspace practices and safe disposal of body substances
and soiled material
✔✔Tattoo - ✔✔Mark on the body of person made with indelible ink or pigments injected
beneath outer layer of skin/ or to make such a mark
✔✔Tattooist - ✔✔Person who applies tattoo on body of another person
✔✔Virus - ✔✔Microorganism that is smaller than bacteria and reproduces inside human
cells and may cause infection. They can survive for hours or days on inanimate
surfaced and can be transferred into the body through abraded skin
✔✔Documented Risk of Infection Following Tattooing - ✔✔Besides viral diseases HIV
HCV and HBV, warts, toxic shock syndrome, tuberculosis, inoculation leprosy, and
molluscum contagiousum
✔✔Skin disorders - ✔✔Body may form bumps called granulomas around tattoo particles
especially with red ink, raised excessive scarring (keloids)
EVALUATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) - ✔✔Virus that causes AIDS. Takes from 1 to
6 months for blood to test positive for antibodies after virus enters the body.
✔✔Immunization - ✔✔Method to produce immunity (protection from infection) using
vaccines
✔✔Infection - ✔✔Condition resulting from presence and multiplication of
microorganisms in the body. Not all show signs of symptoms but it is still transmittable
✔✔Infection control - ✔✔Practices and strategies that aim to minimize the risk of
spreading infections, prevents client to client, client to tattooist, and tattooist to client
spreading.
✔✔Infectious waste - ✔✔Includes human waste, animal waste, and objects and
materials contaminated with blood or bodily fluids with disease causing microorganisms
or viruses. Items saturated in blood, needles and syringes and other shapes should be
handled with precaution
✔✔Instrument - ✔✔Tool used to perform a specific function (ie needle) usually made
from stainless steel to withstand heat during sterilization
✔✔Latex - ✔✔Natural rubber made from sap of tree, (gloves made from)
✔✔Latex Allergy - ✔✔Reaction to protein in sap of tree.
✔✔Microorganism - ✔✔Aka a germ, bacteria, virus, or fungus
✔✔Mucous membrane - ✔✔Sheets of tissue that line various openings of the body
such as the mouth, nose, eyes, or genitals
, ✔✔Pathogen - ✔✔Microorganism that can cause disease in humans
✔✔Regulated infectious waste - ✔✔All waste, visibly dripping with blood that could
potentially be contaminated with disease causing microorganisms, presents a
recognized infectious hazard to waste disposal workers and environment if appropriate
precautions are not used
✔✔Reusable - ✔✔Instrument designated by manufacturer as suitable for reprocessing
and reuse.
✔✔Sharps - ✔✔Any article that can pierce the skin and cause punctures or cuts.
Needles and disposable razors
✔✔Single use - ✔✔Instrument or gloves labeled for one use only, to be discarded after
use
✔✔Stencil - ✔✔Single use paper stencil
✔✔Sterile gloves - ✔✔Single use that are sterile at time of use, package labels them as
sterile
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔Process that destroys all forms of microbial life including the most
resistant forms (ie bacterial spores by heat, chemicals, or gases)
✔✔Standard precautions - ✔✔Work practices that require everyone to assume that
blood and body fluids are a potential source of infection, independent of perceived risk.
Protective barriers and safe workspace practices and safe disposal of body substances
and soiled material
✔✔Tattoo - ✔✔Mark on the body of person made with indelible ink or pigments injected
beneath outer layer of skin/ or to make such a mark
✔✔Tattooist - ✔✔Person who applies tattoo on body of another person
✔✔Virus - ✔✔Microorganism that is smaller than bacteria and reproduces inside human
cells and may cause infection. They can survive for hours or days on inanimate
surfaced and can be transferred into the body through abraded skin
✔✔Documented Risk of Infection Following Tattooing - ✔✔Besides viral diseases HIV
HCV and HBV, warts, toxic shock syndrome, tuberculosis, inoculation leprosy, and
molluscum contagiousum
✔✔Skin disorders - ✔✔Body may form bumps called granulomas around tattoo particles
especially with red ink, raised excessive scarring (keloids)
