New COVID-19 normal could lead to stronger regulations for parlours, salons: Health Minister

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VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) — Health Minister Adrian Dix says re-opening hair salons and other personal grooming services will require a dramatic change in the way people operate.

Dix says post-COVID-19 world will likely include stronger oversight of hairstylists, tattoo parlours and nail salons in B.C.

“How do we make adjustments? Both to rebuild public confidence and to ensure there’s public confidence to go to establishments, should they be allowed to operate, but also start to do the work now to ensure that it could be done safely and this is required across B.C. society and across the economy,” he says.

According to Dix it’s been 17 years since those businesses were de-regulated by the former Liberal government.

“What will be required, at the very minimum, is to meet the standards being put in place by the provincial health officer. Whether that would require new legislation, I don’t know. But with the health orders such as we have in place, it will require a dramatic change in the way people operate,” Dix says.

He adds this crisis gives this industry a chance to raise standard levels, not only to prevent the spread of COVID-19 but to boost overall confidence from the public.

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