The AUPP’s Professional Practitioner requirements start at a level that our industry felt is solid and each year the requirements to join/retain membership become more refined and focused on client and practitioner safety.
Year 1 (2020) Requirements
- Ethical requirements
- Does not use piercing guns (including mechanical, spring loaded, or hand pressure systems)
- Does not do intimate piercings (nipple/genital) on clients under 18
- Does not pierce clients under the age of 16 without parental consent
- Only pierces clients who are able to give informed consent (ie: no infants, toddlers, or intoxicated/drug affected individuals)
- Training requirements
- valid BBP training certificate
- valid First Aid & CPR certificate
- valid state required recognised required certifications (TAFE, UNI etc)
- Environmental requirements
- Gives written and verbal aftercare instructions for skin penetration procedures
- A secured sharps disposal container with direct access in procedure room (wall mounted is suggested)
- Dedicated biohazard tool container (if reprocessing tools)
- Dedicated warm hand washing facilities within direct access of procedure room (inside room is suggested)
- Easy to clean non-porous flooring and surfaces in procedure room
- Sterility requirements
- Submits yearly autoclave spore tests
- Submits yearly autoclave spore tests
- PPE requirements
- Uses single use non-latex gloves for skin penetration procedures
Year 2 (2022) Requirements
- Ethical requirements
- No piercing guns used by any staff member at your location (including mechanical, spring loaded, or hand pressure systems)
- Does not use external thread or step-down jewellery for initial or healing piercings
- Does not pierce with, or install in a healing wound, any jewellery in which a seam, hinge, join, or hallmark may pass through the piercing channel
- Pierces/installs in healing piercings only the following materials:
- Titanium
- Surgical Stainless Steel
- Niobium
- Glass
- Solid Gold
- Solid Platinum
- Biocompatible polymers
- Does not sell or install acrylic/PMMA body jewellery
- Single use marking implements (single use pen is recommended, single use tooth-pick with ink is acceptable)
- Training requirements
- Has completed COVID-19 safety training (if required by local regulations)
- Understands correct hand wasing technique
- Understands and displays instructions on how to safely don and doff PPE
- Environmental requirements
- Liquid hand-soap dispenser next to hand washing sink
- Single-handed or hands free paper towel dispenser/hand drying facilities next to hand washing sink
- Dedicated sterilisation area with door and HEPA air filter (if reprocessing tools)
- HEPA air filter or other air purification system in the piercing room
- Sterilised piercing implements kept in enclosed non-porous containers
- Biohazardous waste containers must have a hands-free lid and marked “Biohazard”
- Disposable non-latex gloves at jewellery displays/counter for handling jewellery
- Sterility requirements
- Submits monthly autoclave spore or helix tests
- Uses single use aseptic drape and/or a visual identifying prep (such as iodine) for skin penetration procedures
- Uses and records a class 5 integrator or class 6 emulator for every autoclave cycle
- Uses an autoclave with Class B or Class S programs for hollow and porous loads
- PPE requirements
- Uses PPE for manual tool reprocessing (if applicable), including:
- disposable gloves
- disposable apron
- disposable arm sleeves
- disposable mouth protection
- eye protection (disposable mask with eye shield suggested)
- Uses PPE for manual tool reprocessing (if applicable), including:
Year 3 (2023) Requirements
- Ethical requirements
- No acrylic/PMMA body jewellery sold by any staff member
- No external thread jewellery sold or used by any staff member
- Piercers/installs in healing piercings only the following materials:
- ASTM F-136 (Ti6Al4V ELI) Implant grade Titanium
- ASTM F-1295 (Ti6Al7Nb ELI) Implant grade Titanium
- ASTM F-138 (ISO 10993-6, 10993-10 and/or 10993-11) Implant grade Steel
- ASTM B392 compliant Niobium (ie: Grade 2 Niobium, Grade 4 Niobium)
- Glass that is lead free (ie: Fused quartz, Borosilicate, Soda-lime)
- Solid 14kt+ gold (nickel and cadmium free)
- Solid Platinum (cadmium, nickel, and lead free)
- ASTM F754 Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
- USP VI compliant biocompatible polymers
- Environmental requirements
- Completely separate, walled procedural room with door(s)
- Curtains are not accepted as dividers/separators
- If room is used for other services (such as tattooing) it must be thoroughly cleaned before use for piercing
- Non-porous fixings/curtains/decorations in procedure room (if applicable)
- Obtains release forms for every skin-penetration procedure (ID sighted and/or recorded)
- Uses an aseptic single use set-up, ie:
- suitable skin prep (individually packaged recommended)
- aseptic drape and or a visual identifying prep (such as iodine)
- marking implements (single use pen is recommended)
- post cleaning care (sterile wipe/gauze recommended)
- Dedicated warm hand washing facilities within direct access of procedure room (inside room is suggested with foot or motion controlled suggested)
- Has submitted a video walk-through of studio, including:
- outside of store
- waiting room
- procedural room
- jewellery display(s)
- reprocessing room (if applicable)
- Completely separate, walled procedural room with door(s)
- Sterility requirements
- Practices a minimum of one of the following tests for all actively used sterilisers:
- Daily helix tests
- Weekly in-house spore testing
- Monthly third party spore testing
- Practices a minimum of one of the following tests for all actively used sterilisers:
- PPE requirements
- Uses mask and beard-net (if applicable) for every skin penetration procedure that has a potential of bodily fluid risk (ie oral piercings, piercings that cause aerosol bodily fluids)
- Uses sterile single use non-latex gloves for skin penetration procedures