To protect yourself while enhancing the lives of others, you should be fully insured as a practitioner. It is recommended you check your state for regulations and the available insurance companies and any additional information for licensing. Here at AMA we train both those who are licensed and non-licensed individuals all over the world. Due to our large scope, the different regulations regarding licensing and insurance will vary which why we ask our students to take time to educate themselves on any laws or governing boards.

For insurance, you can find coverage by simply going online and researching insurance companies for beauty enhancements. You will find a wide array of companies and coverage, but you should take time to research the right one for you and your practice. Practitioners are able to find coverage for as low as $96 to $180 a year for liability coverage. The reward of having liability coverage compared to the risk of litigation, makes finding the right kind of insurance in your best interest. 

Additional websites where you can find insurance coverage:

-handsontrade.com 

-cisrocks.com

-marineagency.com 

We do not endorse any specific insurance provider.

In the United States of America we have an official government agency assembled to take on the responsibility of work safety. This official government agency is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more commonly known as OSHA.

Students going through our training courses should seek out a bloodborne pathogen training course online as a safeguard to protect yourself and your clients under OSHA. This training can provide you with the valuable information to protect yourself from health hazards such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV, malaria, brucellosis, syphilis, West Nile virus, and COVID-19 just to name a few.

It is also recommended that students be certified in Infection Control and Prevention, since one of the most common occupations for infections to happen are in the healthcare and aesthetics fields. It is important to keep yourself and your clients safe from contamination and infections, as well as reduce their ability to spread. Although this is a needle-free procedure, you will still puncture the skin with plasma energy so you will need to ensure the safety of yourself and your clients from infections and spreading them. Infections can live in multiple areas, on various materials, and on the client, which is why it is extremely important for you to know how to prevent infections.  

We recommend finding an accredited online course to help you safeguard yourself and protect your clients.

**Bloodborne Pathogen or BBP certification is valid for 1 year and must be renewed.

**Infection Control and Prevention certification is valid for 2 years and must be renewed. 

Any occupation or line of work where you can possibly have blood exposure, you need to take every precaution available to keep everyone safe.

Now more than ever, we need to educate ourselves on how pathogens spread, and what we can do to protect ourselves. In this module we will cover best practices for preventing the spread of infection, but we encourage you to take an infection control course to be fully aware of how best to protect yourself and your clients. 

It's helpful to know the chain of infection so that we can learn ways to disrupt this chain and reduce the chance of spreading sickness. The chain of infection is a sequence of events that must occur in order to cause a sickness. 

The best way to stop infections from spreading is by interrupting the chain of infection. The two main categories for breaking the chain of infection are standard precautions and transmission-based precautions.

Hand washing is a simple yet effective way to reduce infections. Many pathogens, including coronaviruses have a fatty outer cell membrane. Soap can breakdown and dissolve fat. When you wash your hands, the soap is disrupting the molecular bond of these infectious substances. If you lather up long enough, you can completely kill many types of bacteria, viruses and other infectious agents. 

Wash your hands for 20 seconds to help prevent spreading infection to yourself or someone else.

One of the most efficient ways to prevent the transmission of infections is to keep your work environment clean and sanitized.

The CDC recommends the following guidelines: 

Another way in which you can control the spread of infection is to use personal protective equipment or PPE. Personal protective equipment is an inexpensive yet effective way to impact two different sequences within the chain of infection. They can prevent transmission through a portal of exit or infection by blocking portals of entry. 

With aesthetics procedures you may find yourself constantly needing to re-glove. Sometimes you will find yourself needing to grab something from a drawer but you are already wearing your gloves. If you do pick up something the gloves are no longer sterile. Before you touch anything you will need to take your gloves off so that you are not contaminating the handle and anything else you touch in the process. You need to be stay conscious of what you're about to touch when doing procedures. The only items you should be touching while wearing your gloves are what you have set up on your tray before the procedure. 

In order to avoid having to put on a new pair of gloves because you forgot an item, have your work area properly set up. Below are the items you will need to equip your treatment space at your own facility. 

Sharp items such as needles, microblades, and ampoules that  have been used should be considered contaminated. Place the used probe or needle in a designated waste receptacle for contaminated items. This waste receptacle should have a lid. The location of your waste bin for contaminated materials should not be near a general client waiting room or other type of common area, but in a secure location with limited chance for accidental contact. Seal the bag and dispose of properly at the end of the day.