OREGON ESTHETICIAN EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- how must they be dispensed? - ✔✔All substances, including paraffin was, used within
a field of practice must be dispensed from containers in a manner to prevent
contamination of the unused portion.
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- How must Paraffin Wax be used? - ✔✔Paraffin wax must be used in such a manner
that prevents contamination of wax remaining in the paraffin bath or container, such as
application with a single use or sanitized spatula or applicator, or disposal of any used
wax.
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- How must paraffin wax be maintained while not in use? - ✔✔Paraffin must be covered
when not in use, and maintained at a temperature specified by the manufacturer's
instructions
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How is chemical waste to
be disposed of each day? - ✔✔All chemical waste material must be disposed of in a
closed container at the conclusion of each service and disposed of in a fire retardant
container at the end of each business day.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - how do you dispose of
waste related to performance of services? - ✔✔All waste related to the performance of
services must be disposed of in a covered container to avoid blood or other potentially
infectious materials.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How must non-service
related waste be kept? - ✔✔All waste unrelated to performance of services must be
disposed of in a covered waste disposal container. Containers located in the reception
area, which do not contain waste relating to performance of services, are exempt from
having covers.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How must the waste
disposal containers be kept? - ✔✔All outer surfaces of waste disposal containers must
be kept clean.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - Disposal of waste
containing blood or other potentially infectious materials? - ✔✔All waste which contains
blood or other potentially infectious materials must be disposed of in a glove or plastic
bag and then disposed of in a covered container with a garbage liner immediately
following the service.
,✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How do you dispose of
disposable sharps? - ✔✔All disposable sharp objects that come in direct contact with
blood or other potentially infectious materials must be disposed of in a sealable
rigid(puncture-proof) container to avoid cuts or punctures during the disposal process.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - What must Authorization
Holders have at all times (2 items regarding waste disposal) - ✔✔Authorization holders
must have sealable plastic bags and sealable rigid containers available for use at all
times services are being performed.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - What must happen with
tools/implements that come in direct contact with clients? - ✔✔All tools and implements
that come in direct contact with clients, must be disinfected or disposed of after each
use.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- Low/High level
Disinfectants - ✔✔Low-level and high-level disinfectants must meet the requirements
defined under OAR 817-005-0005.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - Disinfection and
Sterilizing Equipment maintenance requirements - ✔✔Adequate disinfecting and
sterilizing equipment must be maintained for the volume of business and usage
requirements for the number of authorization holders performing services.
If sterilization equipment is used, the equipment must be maintained and used
according to manufacturer's instructions.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - when used according to
manufacturer's instructions, what are approved methods of disinfection tools and
implements? - ✔✔When used according to the manufacturer's instructions, each of the
following is an approved method of disinfecting tools and implements:
(a) Complete immersion in an appropriate disinfectant according to OAR 817-005-0005.
(b) Steam sterilizer, registered and listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; or
(c) Dry heat sterilizer or autoclave, registered and listed with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- maintenance of
disinfectants in use? - ✔✔All disinfectants [...] must be kept at adequate strengths to
maintain effectiveness, be free of foreign material and be available for immediate use at
all times when the facility is open for business.
, ✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- what must be done with
used disposable tools/implements? - ✔✔Nail files, pumice blocks, cosmetic sponges,
buffer blocks, sanding bands or sleeves, orangewood sticks, disposable nail bits and
other similar articles must be given to the client or discarded after use on a client.
Presence of used articles in the work area may be used as prima facie evidence of re-
use of those articles.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- how to treat gloves that
are not cleaned with soap and water and disinfected? - ✔✔Protective gloves that are
not cleaned with soap and water and disinfected must be disposed of after use on a
client.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - Manual or Mechanical
devices and equipment must meet ______________ imposed by any federal, state,
county, or local authority. - ✔✔All manual or mechanical devices and equipment used in
a field of practice must meet all "product registration requirements" imposed by any
federal, state, county, or local authority.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - You must keep 2 things
accessible for any devices classified by the FDA that are used in a field of practice -
✔✔Verification and documentation must be maintained and accessible for any device
classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is used in a field of
practice.
This applies to specialized items used in a field of practice and may not apply to those
items used in the delivery of basic services, which have been defined as an "article,"
equipment," or "materials and supplies" in OAR chapter 817, division 005, such as
scissors, combs, orangewood sticks, shampoo bowls, styling chairs or nail files.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - How may you use a
manual or mechanical device or equipment? - ✔✔Use of any manual or mechanical
device or equipment must be within the operator's scope of practice under ORS 690, be
consistent with the manufacturer's intended use of the device, and with client health and
safety. In determining whether the use of any manual or mechanical device or
equipment is consistent with client health and safety, the agency will consider the
information provided in the documentation required by section (10) of this rule.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - what must be available
upon demand during inspection of manual or mechanical device or equipment? -
✔✔Any manual or mechanical device or equipment used in a field of practice is subject
to inspection and the documentation required by section (10) of this rule must be made
available upon demand.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- how must they be dispensed? - ✔✔All substances, including paraffin was, used within
a field of practice must be dispensed from containers in a manner to prevent
contamination of the unused portion.
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- How must Paraffin Wax be used? - ✔✔Paraffin wax must be used in such a manner
that prevents contamination of wax remaining in the paraffin bath or container, such as
application with a single use or sanitized spatula or applicator, or disposal of any used
wax.
✔✔Safety & Sanitation Rules: Materials in Contact with a Client and Use of paraffin wax
- How must paraffin wax be maintained while not in use? - ✔✔Paraffin must be covered
when not in use, and maintained at a temperature specified by the manufacturer's
instructions
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How is chemical waste to
be disposed of each day? - ✔✔All chemical waste material must be disposed of in a
closed container at the conclusion of each service and disposed of in a fire retardant
container at the end of each business day.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - how do you dispose of
waste related to performance of services? - ✔✔All waste related to the performance of
services must be disposed of in a covered container to avoid blood or other potentially
infectious materials.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How must non-service
related waste be kept? - ✔✔All waste unrelated to performance of services must be
disposed of in a covered waste disposal container. Containers located in the reception
area, which do not contain waste relating to performance of services, are exempt from
having covers.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How must the waste
disposal containers be kept? - ✔✔All outer surfaces of waste disposal containers must
be kept clean.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - Disposal of waste
containing blood or other potentially infectious materials? - ✔✔All waste which contains
blood or other potentially infectious materials must be disposed of in a glove or plastic
bag and then disposed of in a covered container with a garbage liner immediately
following the service.
,✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - How do you dispose of
disposable sharps? - ✔✔All disposable sharp objects that come in direct contact with
blood or other potentially infectious materials must be disposed of in a sealable
rigid(puncture-proof) container to avoid cuts or punctures during the disposal process.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Refuse and Waste Material - What must Authorization
Holders have at all times (2 items regarding waste disposal) - ✔✔Authorization holders
must have sealable plastic bags and sealable rigid containers available for use at all
times services are being performed.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - What must happen with
tools/implements that come in direct contact with clients? - ✔✔All tools and implements
that come in direct contact with clients, must be disinfected or disposed of after each
use.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- Low/High level
Disinfectants - ✔✔Low-level and high-level disinfectants must meet the requirements
defined under OAR 817-005-0005.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - Disinfection and
Sterilizing Equipment maintenance requirements - ✔✔Adequate disinfecting and
sterilizing equipment must be maintained for the volume of business and usage
requirements for the number of authorization holders performing services.
If sterilization equipment is used, the equipment must be maintained and used
according to manufacturer's instructions.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - when used according to
manufacturer's instructions, what are approved methods of disinfection tools and
implements? - ✔✔When used according to the manufacturer's instructions, each of the
following is an approved method of disinfecting tools and implements:
(a) Complete immersion in an appropriate disinfectant according to OAR 817-005-0005.
(b) Steam sterilizer, registered and listed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; or
(c) Dry heat sterilizer or autoclave, registered and listed with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- maintenance of
disinfectants in use? - ✔✔All disinfectants [...] must be kept at adequate strengths to
maintain effectiveness, be free of foreign material and be available for immediate use at
all times when the facility is open for business.
, ✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- what must be done with
used disposable tools/implements? - ✔✔Nail files, pumice blocks, cosmetic sponges,
buffer blocks, sanding bands or sleeves, orangewood sticks, disposable nail bits and
other similar articles must be given to the client or discarded after use on a client.
Presence of used articles in the work area may be used as prima facie evidence of re-
use of those articles.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards- how to treat gloves that
are not cleaned with soap and water and disinfected? - ✔✔Protective gloves that are
not cleaned with soap and water and disinfected must be disposed of after use on a
client.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - Manual or Mechanical
devices and equipment must meet ______________ imposed by any federal, state,
county, or local authority. - ✔✔All manual or mechanical devices and equipment used in
a field of practice must meet all "product registration requirements" imposed by any
federal, state, county, or local authority.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - You must keep 2 things
accessible for any devices classified by the FDA that are used in a field of practice -
✔✔Verification and documentation must be maintained and accessible for any device
classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that is used in a field of
practice.
This applies to specialized items used in a field of practice and may not apply to those
items used in the delivery of basic services, which have been defined as an "article,"
equipment," or "materials and supplies" in OAR chapter 817, division 005, such as
scissors, combs, orangewood sticks, shampoo bowls, styling chairs or nail files.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - How may you use a
manual or mechanical device or equipment? - ✔✔Use of any manual or mechanical
device or equipment must be within the operator's scope of practice under ORS 690, be
consistent with the manufacturer's intended use of the device, and with client health and
safety. In determining whether the use of any manual or mechanical device or
equipment is consistent with client health and safety, the agency will consider the
information provided in the documentation required by section (10) of this rule.
✔✔Safety and Sanitation Rules: Requirements and Standards - what must be available
upon demand during inspection of manual or mechanical device or equipment? -
✔✔Any manual or mechanical device or equipment used in a field of practice is subject
to inspection and the documentation required by section (10) of this rule must be made
available upon demand.
