Salons carry the same employer, premises and data duties as any business — plus treatment licensing, COSHH and dermatitis controls, and infection control. And a new statutory licence for non-surgical cosmetic procedures is coming to England. SalonGuard sorts the licensing, the COSHH assessment, the policies and the training, and gives you a trust mark your clients can see.
A salon owner answers to the fire service, the ICO, the HSE and — for treatments — the council's licensing team, often annually. Aesthetics clinics are about to gain a statutory licence on top. The penalties run from £5,000 fines to unlimited.
A mandatory England licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures — botox, fillers and more — licensing both practitioner and premises, run by local authorities. The government's response is published; standards are being finalised. A new, unavoidable regime for a fast-growing, credibility-starved market.
Skin-piercing, electrolysis, tattooing and acupuncture need person- and premises-registration nationwide; in London, ordinary beauty, massage and nail treatments need an annually-renewed special-treatment licence. Operating without one is an offence with fines to £5,000.
A written COSHH assessment for colourants and acrylics (up to 70% of hairdressers develop dermatitis), a fire risk assessment with unlimited fines, the harassment-prevention duty in a high-contact trade, and UK GDPR for client and treatment records.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for hair, beauty, nails, barbering and aesthetics.
For aesthetics clinics: get licence-ready ahead of England's new cosmetic-procedures scheme — infection-control records, consent and consultation forms, indemnity prompts and a documented standards file, ready the day the scheme goes live.
We identify which special-treatment licences your services need — by service and by council, including London's wider net — and keep the annual renewals from slipping.
A guided written COSHH assessment for your products, dermatitis-prevention controls and an infection-control pack — the chemical-safety duty the HSE enforces and the salon software ignores.
Fire risk assessment, harassment-prevention policy and incident log, and UK GDPR essentials for client records, photos and consultation forms — generated and e-signed with an audit trail.
Short, quiz-checked modules — infection control, COSHH awareness, harassment prevention, data protection — with certificates and progress tracking for employed staff (and a way to handle chair-renters).
Hiring stylists, therapists or front-of-house? Screen applicants with an AI-scored video interview plus a short, validated work-style check, judged against the spec you set — so you hire right first time. With firing now hard and a bad hire costly, an evidenced decision is your best protection. Powered by HireGuard.
A public verification page, embeddable badge and window cling showing your salon is licensed, COSHH-assessed, infection-control trained and (for clinics) practitioner- and premises-licensed — a real differentiator for clients choosing where to be treated.
SalonGuard is built for the four-in-five hair & beauty businesses with fewer than five staff, and for the aesthetics clinics scrambling for credibility in a market about to be regulated. Booking apps run your diary; generic HR tools sell you templates. SalonGuard owns the salon-specific regulatory stack — pre-filled from public records, scanned from your own website and socials, and generated for you.
SalonGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not a law firm or a licensing authority and does not provide legal advice. The Health and Care Act 2022 cosmetic-procedures licensing scheme is being implemented through regulations and will be updated as confirmed; special-treatment licensing requirements vary by local authority (and are wider in London). Generated assessments, policies, consent forms and training help you meet and evidence your duties — they support, but do not replace, your own legal responsibility.