216 R.I. Code R. § 216-RICR-40-10-14.3 - Definitions
A. Wherever used in these rules and
regulations, the terms listed below shall be construed as follows:
1. "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws §
23-1-39 entitled "Tattooing/and/or Body Piercing."
2. "Aseptic technique" means the practice of
preventing the transmission of infectious agents into the human body by using
standard aseptic procedures.
3.
"Body piercing" means the act of penetrating the skin, excluding the earlobes,
to make, generally permanent in nature, a hole or mark.
4. "Body piercing establishment" means any
establishment operated by any person for the purpose of offering or conducting
body piercing.
5. "Body piercing
technician" means an individual who is registered in this state to practice
body piercing in accordance with the requirements herein.
6. "Communicable disease" means any disease
caused by an infectious agent which may be transmitted directly or indirectly
from one individual to another.
7.
"Director" means the Director of the Rhode Island Department of
Health.
8. "Division" means the
Division of Professional Regulation at the Rhode Island Department of
Health.
9. "Instruments" means body
piercing equipment. Such equipment includes, but is not limited to, piercing
needles, forceps, hemostats, tweezers, or other implements used to pierce,
puncture, or be inserted into any part of the human body for the intended
purpose of making a permanent hole. Such equipment also includes studs, hoops,
rings or other decorative jewelry, materials or apparatuses inserted into any
part of the human body for the intended purpose of placement in the hole
resulting from piercing.
10.
"Jewelry" means any personal ornament inserted into a pierced area.
11. "Needle" means the implement used to
pierce or puncture a hole in any part of the human body.
12. "Permanent hole" means a hole produced by
piercing or puncturing any part of the human body, with instruments intended to
leave an opening in body tissue(s) into which an appropriate device or
apparatus may be inserted. Permanent hole would include any body part newly
pierced or punctured which is undergoing a healing process; and, any piercing
whether or not removal of a device or apparatus from the perforation would
result in fusing or healing of the tissue or skin structures.
13. "Person" means any individual, trust or
estate, partnership, corporation (including but not limited to associations and
joint stock companies), state, or political subdivision or instrumentality of
the state.
14. "Registration
agency" means the Rhode Island Department of Health. "Registration agency" and
"licensing agency" are synonymous.
15. "Sharps" means any object that can
penetrate the skin, including but not limited to, needles, scalpel blades,
lancets, glass tubes that could be broken during handling that have been
removed from their original sterile containers.
16. "Sterilization" means the use of
procedures that destroy all microbial life, including viruses, on the equipment
or device.
17. "Universal
precautions" means a set of guidelines and controls, published by the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) that outline certain practices that health care
workers should employ in order to prevent parenteral, mucous-membrane, and no
intact skin exposure to blood borne pathogens. The method of infection control
requires the employer and employee to assume that all human blood and specified
human body fluids are infectious for HIV, HBV, and other blood borne pathogens.
Precautions include: hand washing, gloving, personal protective equipment,
injury prevention, proper handling and disposal of needles and other sharp
instruments and blood and body fluid contaminated products.
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