CANS Exam Questions With 100%
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Infection control CORRECT ANSWERS The method used to eliminate or reduce the
transmisson of infectious organisms from one individual to another
OSHA CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS 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
ANSWERS The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Disinfectants CORRECT ANSWERS are chemical products that destroy most bacteria
(excluding spores), fungi, and viruses on surfaces.
What are federal agencies guidelines? CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS Includes licensing agencies, state
boards, commissions, and health departments.
What does regulatory agencies require? CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS rules, regulations
Who writes the rules and determines how the law must be applied? CORRECT
ANSWERS Regulatory agency or state board
, Rules establishes what? CORRECT ANSWERS Specific standards of conduct and can
be changed or updated frequently.
Disease? CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS The invasion of body tissue by disease-causing
pathogens.
Transmission? CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS Direct, indirect (surface), airborne, and respiratory
droplet.
Direct transmission? CORRECT ANSWERS Involves the transmission of pathogens
through touching, kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Indirect transmission? CORRECT ANSWERS 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 ANSWERS
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? CORRECT
ANSWERS 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? CORRECT ANSWERS Is caused by pathogenic (harmful)
organisms that enter the body
Cleaning? CORRECT ANSWERS 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.
Disinfection? CORRECT ANSWERS Involves the use of a chemical to destroy most,
but not necessarily all, harmful organisms on environmental surfaces. Is not effective
against bacterial spores
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