Infection control inspections
Your skin penetration business may be inspected at any time without notice by a public health officer. This can be a routine inspection or after a complaint has been made.
Your business will be assessed against the Infection Control Code of Practice.
You can ask the public health officer to produce their identity card.
You must not stop a public health officer from carrying out their inspection. It's an offence to interfere with an inspection.
Find out more about infection control.
During an inspection
They may:
- ask questions
- request your help for access to certain areas
- request and copy documents
- examine anything in or on the premises such as equipment, supplies
- take photographs
- seize items if necessary.
Breaches of the code
If public health officers find breaches of the code, you will be issued with an improvement notice and must fix the issues within a certain timeframe.
If critical breaches are found, you may be given a prohibition notice and your business closed until it is safe to reopen.
If you don't fix issues after an improvement notice, you may be fined and given a prohibition notice.
What public health officers will look for
There are inspection forms for each business type that needs an infection control licence.
These forms help public heath officers be consistent and transparent during an inspection.
You can use these forms to get an idea of what the public health officers will look for during an inspection. They are not intended to be used as educational or resource material.
Download the inspection forms:
- nail salon
- dental inspection
- cosmetic skin clinic
- beauty therapy
- tattoo and body piercing infection control
- podiatry
- infusion therapy
- colonic irrigation
- acupuncture, dry needling and Hijama.
Find out how to apply for an infection control licence.