Coronavirus Covid-19: Close Contact Services

22nd April 2021

Information for people who provide close contact services such as hairdressers, barbers and beauticians on working safely during coronavirus.

Overview
This guide is for people who provide close contact retail services.

As close contact services may, by nature, carry an increased risk of transmission, this guidance will help you understand what you need to do to keep your workplace, staff and customers safe during coronavirus.

Examples of close contact services include:

hairdressing and barber services
beauty and nail services (including make-up services)
hair removal services
tattoo, piercing and body modification services
fashion design, dress-fitting and tailoring services
indoor portrait photography and art services
massage therapies
complementary and alternative medicine services requiring physical contact or close physical proximity between persons, but not osteopathy and chiropractic services
spa and wellness services

other services or procedures which require physical contact or close physical proximity between a provider and a customer and are not ancillary to medical, health, or social care services.

We have developed this guidance in consultation with the industry and trade unions and will keep it under review.

Read full details at -
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-close-contact-services/