CANS EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2025
Infection control - correct answer- The method used to eliminate or reduce
the transmisson of infectious organisms from one individual to another
OSHA - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- 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 - correct answer- 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? - correct
answer- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Disinfectants - correct answer- are chemical products that destroy most
bacteria (excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
,What are federal agencies guidelines? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- Includes licensing agencies,
state boards, commissions, and health departments.
What does regulatory agencies require? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- rules, regulations
Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied? - correct
answer- Regulatory agency or state board
Rules establishes what? - correct answer- Specific standards of conduct and
can be changed or updated frequently.
, Disease? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- The invasion of body tissue by disease-
causing pathogens.
Transmission? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- Direct, indirect (surface),
airborne, and respiratory droplet.
Direct transmission? - correct answer- Involves the transmission of
pathogens through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Indirect transmission? - correct answer- 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?
- correct answer- similar in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living
in our respiratory tract is expelled through coughing, sneezing, or even
talking.
2025
Infection control - correct answer- The method used to eliminate or reduce
the transmisson of infectious organisms from one individual to another
OSHA - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- 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 - correct answer- 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? - correct
answer- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Disinfectants - correct answer- are chemical products that destroy most
bacteria (excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
,What are federal agencies guidelines? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- Includes licensing agencies,
state boards, commissions, and health departments.
What does regulatory agencies require? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- rules, regulations
Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied? - correct
answer- Regulatory agency or state board
Rules establishes what? - correct answer- Specific standards of conduct and
can be changed or updated frequently.
, Disease? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- The invasion of body tissue by disease-
causing pathogens.
Transmission? - correct answer- 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? - correct answer- Direct, indirect (surface),
airborne, and respiratory droplet.
Direct transmission? - correct answer- Involves the transmission of
pathogens through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Indirect transmission? - correct answer- 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?
- correct answer- similar in that transmission occurs when a pathogen living
in our respiratory tract is expelled through coughing, sneezing, or even
talking.
