Customers will soon be able to check the credibility of beauticians before making an appointment with Spa and Wellness Association of Singapore‘s (SWAS) new project: a database listing a beauty specialist’s qualifications and experience.
The public registry is slated for a 2015 launch. In the meantime, SWAS is collecting information from spa-goers using this survey, which asks questions like whether a therapist should be registered and if their professional qualifications are important.
Speaking to The Straits Times, SWAS said it does not want an accident — like the one in Hong Kong where a blood transfusion treatment caused three to fall sick and the death of one woman — to happen in Singapore.
Through the registry, SWAS also hopes to restore the local beauty industry’s image — it received the second-highest number of complaints last year.
Source: The Straits Times
Photo: Maxine Simpson
The next time you visit a beautician, you may be able to check online if she is qualified to perform a facial.
This will come to pass if the Spa and Wellness Association of Singapore (SWAS) succeeds in its ambitious plan of putting together a nationwide registry of therapists including their qualifications from next year.
The idea is to register not just beauticians, but other specialists such as hairdressers, masseurs and manicurists.
SWAS said the move was prompted by a case in Hong Kong last year, in which one woman died of septic shock while three others fell ill after undergoing a blood transfusion treatment at a beauty parlour.
“We don’t want something like that to happen here,” Mr Edward Wong, acting honorary secretary of SWAS, told The Straits Times.
The idea has been put to several agencies, including the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). SWAS is seeking feedback from stakeholders before finalising the details.
But implementing the proposed registry will be a massive task.
The beauty and wellness industry has about 19,000 businesses here, according to a 2011 Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) audit, and SWAS represents only a fraction of them.
– See more at: http://business.asiaone.com/news/spa-grouping-plans-registry-therapists#sthash.JA1SuUYK.dpuf
The next time you visit a beautician, you may be able to check online if she is qualified to perform a facial.
This will come to pass if the Spa and Wellness Association of Singapore (SWAS) succeeds in its ambitious plan of putting together a nationwide registry of therapists including their qualifications from next year.
The idea is to register not just beauticians, but other specialists such as hairdressers, masseurs and manicurists.
SWAS said the move was prompted by a case in Hong Kong last year, in which one woman died of septic shock while three others fell ill after undergoing a blood transfusion treatment at a beauty parlour.
“We don’t want something like that to happen here,” Mr Edward Wong, acting honorary secretary of SWAS, told The Straits Times.
The idea has been put to several agencies, including the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). SWAS is seeking feedback from stakeholders before finalising the details.
But implementing the proposed registry will be a massive task.
The beauty and wellness industry has about 19,000 businesses here, according to a 2011 Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) audit, and SWAS represents only a fraction of them.
– See more at: http://business.asiaone.com/news/spa-grouping-plans-registry-therapists#sthash.JA1SuUYK.dpuf
The next time you visit a beautician, you may be able to check online if she is qualified to perform a facial.
This will come to pass if the Spa and Wellness Association of Singapore (SWAS) succeeds in its ambitious plan of putting together a nationwide registry of therapists including their qualifications from next year.
The idea is to register not just beauticians, but other specialists such as hairdressers, masseurs and manicurists.
SWAS said the move was prompted by a case in Hong Kong last year, in which one woman died of septic shock while three others fell ill after undergoing a blood transfusion treatment at a beauty parlour.
“We don’t want something like that to happen here,” Mr Edward Wong, acting honorary secretary of SWAS, told The Straits Times.
The idea has been put to several agencies, including the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case). SWAS is seeking feedback from stakeholders before finalising the details.
But implementing the proposed registry will be a massive task.
The beauty and wellness industry has about 19,000 businesses here, according to a 2011 Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) audit, and SWAS represents only a fraction of them.
– See more at: http://business.asiaone.com/news/spa-grouping-plans-registry-therapists#sthash.JA1SuUYK.dpuf
