Hi,
I have registered to this forum to seek advice from professionals in the nail industry.
I live above a nail salon and am highly concerned about the fumes, the main reason being that my 2 young children (one a baby) occupy a room directly above the nail salon.
The situation is as follows, the nail salon operates with a minimum of 3 staff and a maximum of 5, this is in an aprox 6x3meter premisis.For ventilation a small window is sometimes opened, sometimes the window is left closed all day.
I am finding that information regarding recommended ventilation is hard to come by, I have been in touch with Enviromental Health a while ago, this was not a route I wanted to go down but after 3 requests to the owner to do something about the fumes failed to achieve anything I felt I had to.I ended up telling the EH not to proceed after an initial enqiry as the owner assured me (one year ago) that they were going to fit extraction of some sort, this has not been done.
I cannot smell fumes as strong as I once could, so I am wondering if something is being done to mask the smell.
The actual smell is not what concerns me it is the possible dangers of the chemicals used, althought I admit I am fairly ignorant to the hard facts, I do know that a lot of nail technicians use face masks.
Is a small open window considered adequate ventilation ?
The main reason for this post is that I can discuss your informed opinions with the owner rather than getting the EH involved.
I would also appreciate links to relevant information.
Thanks for reading
I have registered to this forum to seek advice from professionals in the nail industry.
I live above a nail salon and am highly concerned about the fumes, the main reason being that my 2 young children (one a baby) occupy a room directly above the nail salon.
The situation is as follows, the nail salon operates with a minimum of 3 staff and a maximum of 5, this is in an aprox 6x3meter premisis.For ventilation a small window is sometimes opened, sometimes the window is left closed all day.
I am finding that information regarding recommended ventilation is hard to come by, I have been in touch with Enviromental Health a while ago, this was not a route I wanted to go down but after 3 requests to the owner to do something about the fumes failed to achieve anything I felt I had to.I ended up telling the EH not to proceed after an initial enqiry as the owner assured me (one year ago) that they were going to fit extraction of some sort, this has not been done.
I cannot smell fumes as strong as I once could, so I am wondering if something is being done to mask the smell.
The actual smell is not what concerns me it is the possible dangers of the chemicals used, althought I admit I am fairly ignorant to the hard facts, I do know that a lot of nail technicians use face masks.
Is a small open window considered adequate ventilation ?
The main reason for this post is that I can discuss your informed opinions with the owner rather than getting the EH involved.
I would also appreciate links to relevant information.
Thanks for reading