Salon and spa cleaning for Ontario businesses — stations, treatment rooms, wash basins, pedicure areas, washrooms and floors, cleaned on a written schedule and handed back as a signed log for your public health file.
Book a walkthroughSalon and spa cleaning has an unusually clear dividing line running through it, and getting that line right is most of what an owner needs from a cleaning contractor. Your staff reprocess the implements. A cleaning company cleans the building. Those are two different obligations, one of them is yours personally under the regulation, and no contract moves it.
We clean the premises. We do not touch your implements. Stations, chairs, treatment rooms, basins, pedicure surrounds, floors, washrooms, laundry areas and back of house — that is our side. Cleaning, disinfecting and sterilizing combs, blades, files, nippers and anything else that touches a client is your duty as the operator, and it is the first thing an inspector watches.
We say it this plainly because the opposite gets sold. If a cleaning company lets you believe a service contract covers your implements, the inspection will correct them, and it will be your name on the report.
Hair salons, barbershops, nail salons, esthetics and spa services, and tattoo and piercing studios are all personal service settings in Ontario. They are regulated under the Health Protection and Promotion Act through O. Reg. 136/18, applied through the Personal Service Settings Guideline under the Ontario Public Health Standards, and inspected by your local public health unit — usually unannounced, and in most regions with the result published where customers can read it.
Broadly, an inspector is looking at three things: how implements are reprocessed, how the premises is cleaned and maintained, and whether you can show a record of any of it. We are hired for the middle one and we help with the third.
Stations, chairs and headrests, mirrors and counters, shampoo bowls and their fittings, hair debris and floors, retail displays, reception and washrooms.
Manicure tables and chairs, pedicure units and the wet area around them, ventilation grilles where dust and vapour collect, floors, and waste handling.
Treatment rooms between the day's bookings and deep-cleaned on schedule, beds and trolleys, wet rooms, change areas, lockers and relaxation space.
Higher expectations again, closer to a clinic than a salon: treatment rooms, high-touch surfaces, clinical waste areas and the paperwork to match.
Work stations and chairs, the surfaces around the procedure area, floors, washrooms and waste — while your artists keep their own reprocessing and sharps routine.
Staff rooms, laundry areas, storage, dispensary and stock shelving, bins and the loading route — the parts that get skipped and then get written up.
Standing water, warm pipework, skin and hair debris and a warm room is a combination that rewards being systematic. Pedicure units, shampoo bowls, wet rooms and floor drains are on their own schedule rather than being folded into a general clean, and the surrounds, splash zones and the floor around them get treated as part of the same job rather than as ordinary flooring.
Note the boundary again: your between-client procedure for a pedicure tub is part of your own PSS routine and stays with your staff. What we do is the scheduled deeper clean of the unit surround, the wet area and the floor, written down so there is a record that it happened.
| Area | Typical frequency | Whose job |
|---|---|---|
| Implements and anything touching a client | Between every client | Your staff — reprocessing under O. Reg. 136/18 |
| Stations, chairs, counters, mirrors | Daily | Us, on the cleaning schedule |
| Pedicure unit — between clients | Between every client | Your staff, as part of your PSS routine |
| Pedicure surround, wet area, floor drains | Scheduled deep clean | Us |
| Washrooms, floors, waste, back of house | Daily to weekly | Us |
| Vents, baseboards, behind furniture, hard-floor care | Periodic | Us |
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What matters is that a disinfectant is registered with Health Canada and carries a DIN, that it is used at the dilution its label states, that the surface was cleaned before it was disinfected, and that the product was left wet for its full contact time. That last one is where most real-world failures live — a surface wiped and immediately dried has not been disinfected, whatever was in the bottle.
We work colour-coded and dirty-to-clean so a cloth from a washroom never reaches a treatment bed, and we will hand over the product list and the safety data sheets on request. No brand is a legal requirement in Ontario, including the well-known ones, and any product is non-compliant if it is used wrong.
Every visit ends with a signed log — areas cleaned, products used with their DIN numbers, contact times respected, and the name of the person who did the work. It is yours to file, and it is standard rather than a tier.
If you want the format before you talk to anyone, including to hold your current cleaner to it, the free esthetician sanitization log is downloadable with no commitment.
By the walkthrough. Chair or station count, how many treatment rooms and whether they turn over between clients, pedicure units and wet areas, floor type and area, washroom count, whether hard-floor maintenance is inside the contract, how many days a week, and whether the work is after hours. A small barbershop and a multi-room day spa are different buildings with different risks, and a phone quote treats them as the same one.
A fill-in record for stations, treatment rooms and wet areas: what was cleaned, with which DIN-registered product, and who signed for it. The format an inspector expects to see.
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