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Introduction to 3-Zone and Certification

For your employees and clientele, air quality in your salon is more important than ever before. We’re all aware of the risk that exposure to airborne contaminants, including salon vapors/fumes, dust, pathogens, microorganisms, and viruses pose to all of us.

As a salon owner,  you must take action to ensure you’re providing everyone with a safe and comfortable fresh air salon environment.

We sell Three Zone Packages to make sure you are protecting your salon air to the highest standard. When you become Three Zone Certified, you are not only meeting and exceeding OSHA standards and meeting codes, you are taking those extra precautionary measures to ensure everyone’s safety. 

Become Three Zone Certified now. 

Three Zones of Salon Air Quality Protection

The Breathing Zone

The first risk zone in your salon is the source of the contaminant. Your workstations will produce dust, vapors, and other contaninants that are easily dispersed around your salon. Even worse, viruses, pathogens, and bacteria hitch “rides” on this dust and can be inhaled causing a host of health issues. 

Taking Steps to ensure you protect your air quality at the source will make a huge difference in protecting your respiratory health.

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The Room Zone

Approximately 20-25% of dust, vapors, and odors will not be caught the the source capture systems because of various levels of crosswind(open window, open door, blowing fan, etc.) so it’s vital you protect the rest of the room space with a room air purifier. 

Ensuring your room has clean air will make everyone feel more comfortable and safe. 

The Building Zone

The building should not be overlooked when considering air purification systems. Your building’s ventilation system draws air from outside, heats & cools the air and then moves it all around your salon, from one room to another. This can have dramatic impact on your air quality throughout your building. Prevent vapors/odor and other contaminants from spreading to adjacent rooms, and other businesses that are connected through your building ventilation system. 

 Ensure all area of your salon and surrounding businesses have great air quality. 

Zone 1: Protection at the Breathing Zone

Your workstations are the source of the majority of vapors, dust, and particulates in the air. While some of the debris created will simply fall to the table, much more is sent into the air around the workstation and steadily spreads around the room. 

Best practice advice: install a source extraction system to capture contaminants as they are created. 

Here are some practical actions you can take right now to protect your air quality at the source:

— Don’t leave windows and doors open. Crosswinds will push contaminants around the room. 

 – Use trash cans with self-opening lids. Cotton swabs and chemical waste still release vapors even after disposal. 

– Keep all product containers tightly closed when not in use. 

– Thorough sanitizing of the workstation. Clean down after every customer and sanitize. 

– Use the right masks. NIOSH approved face masks remove dust and vapors. Paper masks do NOT!

– Install suitable filtration and ventilation at the workstation. 

– Source Capture System filters should contain an activated carbon filter with a minimum of 2 pounds of activated carbon. 

– Regularly clean and change any filters in line with manufacturer advice. 


Healthy Air®  Source Capture System

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Zone 2: Protection in the Room

The room that contains your workstations is unsurprisingly the next hardest-hit area of your salon, with the natural movement of employees and clients adding to disturbances in the air that pull dust and vapors away from the source. There will still be 20-25% of nail dust, vapors and odors that will not be caught by the source capture systems because of various levels of cross wind (open window or door, or blowing fan, etc.) so it’s vital you protect the rest of your salon with a salon air purifier.

 

Best practice advice: install a room air purifier to pull particulates and harmful substances from a wider area.

Here are some practical actions you can take right now to protect your air quality at the source:

– Ensure cleaning practices cover the room

– Partitioning for stations can reduce the spread of airborne substances.

– Install suitable filtration & ventilation for the room size.

– Avoid using ozone‐generating air-cleaning devices

– Use professional HEPA room air cleaners; avoid devices designed for home use and only use air cleaners in conjunction with a source capture system.

– Regularly clean and change any filters in line with manufacturer advice.

The One That Works™ Salon Room Air Purifier with PCO Technology

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Zone 3: Protection at the Building

Your building will have ventilation throughout to allow clean air to circulate. That also means any airborne contaminants can easily spread into your breakout areas, storage, or neighbor’s facilities

Best practice advice: install appropriate filters into the building’s current ventilation system.

Here are some practical actions you can take right now to protect your air quality at the source:

– Salons should have their own ventilation systems and avoid sharing with adjacent businesses.

– Turn on all general ventilation systems (HVAC) during work hours

– Equip each room with suitable ventilation.

– Keep doors closed in non-work areas.

– Implement a sanitation schedule.

– Source Capture System filters should contain an activated carbon filter with a minimum of 2 lbs. of activated carbon

– Regularly clean and change any filters in line with manufacturer advice

Dust Plus®  HVAC Filter

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Aerovex has helped over 14,000 salons across the country improve their air quality by tackling the challenges of the three danger zones: Source, room, and building. Our team is up to date on the latest industry standards and regulations and ready to help you become clean air certified.

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