Documents for a beauty salon: a list, recommendations from experts

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

In any Russian city, one of the options for a profitable business is to open a salon that will provide high-quality beauty treatments and maintain its condition.

What documents are needed to open a beauty salon? Let's consider further the full list of those, as well as some recommendations of experts regarding their receipt.

Regulatory framework

Currently, the Russian Federation has a whole list of regulatory documents for beauty salons, the provisions of which must be strictly observed by their owners. Among those are:

• Government Decrees (No. 584, No. 1025);
• laws in force at the federal level ("On the sanitary well-being of the population", "On the protection of consumer rights", "On the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs");
• Order of the Ministry of He alth and Social Development No. 302Н;
• certain requirements and rules,established by Rospotrebnadzor;
• Some ordinances issued by governments in selected cities.

Checklist for opening a beauty salon

Before starting to consider the list of documents for a beauty salon, it must be taken into account that only a person registered as an individual entrepreneur or LLC is en titled to obtain a license to open the structure in question. In the event that such a procedure has not been carried out before, its completion will be the first step towards opening your own business of the type in question.

After registering as a legal entity, you need to find a suitable area for your future business and agree on its lease for a long period (or take ownership for any reason).

The next step is to contact the fire and sanitary authorities. They must check the premises and indicate its compliance with the established requirements. After eliminating all the shortcomings, the authorities must issue the appropriate permits to conduct work.

Basic paper package

In order to open your own beauty salon, an entrepreneur should prepare certain documents, the list of which must include:

• constituent documents (agreements, articles of association, etc.);
• a written and certified decision to form a firm;
• acts drawn up as a result of surveys and materials;
• code indicators and cipher;
• certificate of registration of a person or extractfrom the Unified State Register of Legal Entities;
• diplomas, awards, certificates of masters confirming their professionalism, work books of employees and other documents confirming their professionalism may also be required;
• conclusions issued by the fire service and SES;
• documents indicating the readiness of the head of the future salon.

It should be noted that the presented list is considered basic. This means that in addition to the documents presented in it, other papers, as well as contracts concluded with various services, may be needed to open a beauty salon. Let's talk about them further.

What contracts should be signed

In order to open your own beauty salon, the person concerned will have to conclude a number of additional contracts. Among these, there must be a contract for the removal of garbage and household waste.

In the new salon, a person responsible for fire safety in the premises should be appointed - a contract should also be concluded with him. It must pass the appropriate briefing, as well as special accounting books.

Special attention should be paid to the contract to be concluded with Rospotrebnadzor. In their recommendations, many experts note that before visiting this state structure, it is first necessary to conclude a contract with a sanitary and epidemiological station, which will perform all work on a paid or free basis (by agreement). This is related to the fact thatRospotrebnadzor considers beauty salons a source of increased danger in the sanitary environment.

Obtaining a license

In some cases, the list of documents for a beauty salon includes a special license that grants the right to provide medical services that involve intervention in the client's skin with the help of any equipment and drugs. Moreover, such a document is required for salons that provide the following services:

• tattooing;
• piercing ears or installing piercings in any other parts of the body;
• providing peeling services;
• massage;
• vacuum action on the skin;
• cosmetic procedures involving needle pricking.

To apply for a license, you should contact Roszdravnadzor. At the time of contacting this organization, a person should provide a package of documents that will be confirmed:

• registration of a legal entity;
• employee he alth information;
• information about the specialization of employees and professional skills in the provision of beauty services;
• the presence of highly specialized employees in the staff of the salon and confirmation of a sufficient level of professional skills from them;
• compliance of the equipment used for procedures with established sanitary standards.

When a license is not needed

ShouldIt should be noted that in some cases a license is not required to start a new salon. This is possible only when the following services are provided in it:

• pedicure and manicure;
• coloring of hair, eyebrows and eyelashes;
• makeup;
• haircut and styling;
• aesthetic massage;
• applying face masks.

In the event that, in parallel with the listed procedures, other services are provided that involve intervention in the client's skin or any other manipulations classified as medical, then a license is required among the necessary documents for a beauty salon.

License price

How much does it cost to get a license? In the comments left by experts in the field of opening a salon business, it is noted that on average such a license costs around 50-60 thousand rubles, which most entrepreneurs consider an unreasonable fee.

Specialists also note that the level of pricing policy established for granting a license directly depends on the region in which the salon opens, as well as the degree of preparedness of the latter to carry out all planned operations for the provision of services.

List of documents for labor inspection

Special attention should be paid to one more list of documents that the labor inspectorate will certainly be interested in. Among the papers that may be requested by this organization are:

• personal files and cards for each employee of the salon (as part of the personal file of each employee, there must be an employment contract concluded with him, as well as documents confirming his specialization, work experience in a particular field and passing all the necessary briefings);
• working documents (work schedule, staff size, employee vacation schedule, vacation control sheet);
• documents confirming that the salon respects the labor protection of each employee;
• employee workbooks.

Document processing times

How long does it take to collect the entire package of documents for a beauty salon? Real practice shows that it takes on average 30 to 60 days to complete all the stages.

How can this period be shortened? In the recommendations of experts in resolving the issue, it is often noted that if you want to save time resources, an interested person should contact individual companies that provide sanitation services, garbage disposal and have people in their staff who are professionally responsible for fire safety. Moreover, some sanitary services help to draw up some acts, registers of hygiene products, and are also involved in the development of PEP.