CANS Exam questions with verified answers
Infection control Ans✓✓-The method used to eliminate or reduce the
transmisson of infectious organisms from one individual to another
OSHA Ans✓✓-Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created as part
of the U.S department of labour to regulate and enforce safety and health
standards to protect employees in the workplace
Why is OSHA important? Ans✓✓-Products used daily. Addresses issues relating to
the handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of products; general safety in the
workplace; and your right to know about any hazardous ingredients contained in
the products and how to avoid these hazards.
SDS Ans✓✓-How OSHA communicates the potential hazards. 16-category,
standard-format document that replaces the previously mandated MSDS or PSDS.
Who registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the US? Ans✓✓-The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Disinfectants Ans✓✓-are chemical products that destroy most bacteria
(excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
What are federal agencies guidelines? Ans✓✓-Set guidelines for manufactures,
sale, and use of equipment and chemical ingredients. Monitor safety in the
workplace and places limits on the types of services you can perform.
State Regulatory Agencies? Ans✓✓-Includes licensing agencies, state boards,
commissions, and health departments.
,What does regulatory agencies require? Ans✓✓-That everyone working with
clients follow specific procedures. Enforcement of the rules through inspections
and investigations of consumer complaints is also part of the agency's
responsibility.
Laws? Ans✓✓-Laws or statutes are written by both federal and state legislatures
to determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines for regulatory
agencies to make rules.
What is more specific than laws? Ans✓✓-rules, regulations
Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied? Ans✓✓-
Regulatory agency or state board
Rules establishes what? Ans✓✓-Specific standards of conduct and can be
changed or updated frequently.
Disease? Ans✓✓-Any abnormal condition of all or part of the body, its systems,
or its organs that make the body incapable of carrying on normal functions
Infection? Ans✓✓-The invasion of body tissue by disease-causing pathogens.
Transmission? Ans✓✓-Is the process by which pathogens move between
individuals and objects
, What is the most common types of transmission in the salon, spa, or barbershop
environment? Ans✓✓-Direct, indirect (surface), airborne, and respiratory
droplet.
Direct transmission? Ans✓✓-Involves the transmission of pathogens through
touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Indirect transmission? Ans✓✓-occurs through contact with an intermediate
contaminated object, such as a razor, extractor, nipper, or an environmental
surface upon which the pathogen resides. Doorknobs, phones, food-preparation
surfaces or implements.
How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission similar? Ans✓✓-similar
in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living in our respiratory tract is
expelled through coughing, sneezing, or even talking.
How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission different? Ans✓✓-
Respiratory droplets are large particles that do not stay suspended in the air for
long, where as Airborne transmission the particles are much smaller and dryer, so
they hang in the air longer allowing for the pathogen to spread further.
infectious disease? Ans✓✓-Is caused by pathogenic (harmful) organisms that
enter the body
Cleaning? Ans✓✓-Is a mechanical process using soap and water or detergent and
water to remove all visible dirt, debris, and many disease-causing germs from
tools, implements, and equipment.
Infection control Ans✓✓-The method used to eliminate or reduce the
transmisson of infectious organisms from one individual to another
OSHA Ans✓✓-Occupational Safety and Health Administration was created as part
of the U.S department of labour to regulate and enforce safety and health
standards to protect employees in the workplace
Why is OSHA important? Ans✓✓-Products used daily. Addresses issues relating to
the handling, mixing, storing, and disposing of products; general safety in the
workplace; and your right to know about any hazardous ingredients contained in
the products and how to avoid these hazards.
SDS Ans✓✓-How OSHA communicates the potential hazards. 16-category,
standard-format document that replaces the previously mandated MSDS or PSDS.
Who registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the US? Ans✓✓-The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Disinfectants Ans✓✓-are chemical products that destroy most bacteria
(excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
What are federal agencies guidelines? Ans✓✓-Set guidelines for manufactures,
sale, and use of equipment and chemical ingredients. Monitor safety in the
workplace and places limits on the types of services you can perform.
State Regulatory Agencies? Ans✓✓-Includes licensing agencies, state boards,
commissions, and health departments.
,What does regulatory agencies require? Ans✓✓-That everyone working with
clients follow specific procedures. Enforcement of the rules through inspections
and investigations of consumer complaints is also part of the agency's
responsibility.
Laws? Ans✓✓-Laws or statutes are written by both federal and state legislatures
to determine the scope of practice and establish guidelines for regulatory
agencies to make rules.
What is more specific than laws? Ans✓✓-rules, regulations
Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied? Ans✓✓-
Regulatory agency or state board
Rules establishes what? Ans✓✓-Specific standards of conduct and can be
changed or updated frequently.
Disease? Ans✓✓-Any abnormal condition of all or part of the body, its systems,
or its organs that make the body incapable of carrying on normal functions
Infection? Ans✓✓-The invasion of body tissue by disease-causing pathogens.
Transmission? Ans✓✓-Is the process by which pathogens move between
individuals and objects
, What is the most common types of transmission in the salon, spa, or barbershop
environment? Ans✓✓-Direct, indirect (surface), airborne, and respiratory
droplet.
Direct transmission? Ans✓✓-Involves the transmission of pathogens through
touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Indirect transmission? Ans✓✓-occurs through contact with an intermediate
contaminated object, such as a razor, extractor, nipper, or an environmental
surface upon which the pathogen resides. Doorknobs, phones, food-preparation
surfaces or implements.
How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission similar? Ans✓✓-similar
in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living in our respiratory tract is
expelled through coughing, sneezing, or even talking.
How are respiratory droplets and airborne transmission different? Ans✓✓-
Respiratory droplets are large particles that do not stay suspended in the air for
long, where as Airborne transmission the particles are much smaller and dryer, so
they hang in the air longer allowing for the pathogen to spread further.
infectious disease? Ans✓✓-Is caused by pathogenic (harmful) organisms that
enter the body
Cleaning? Ans✓✓-Is a mechanical process using soap and water or detergent and
water to remove all visible dirt, debris, and many disease-causing germs from
tools, implements, and equipment.
