Tattoos and Safety

Safety and Skill

A tattooist who observes and practices safety procedures at all times is said to be skilled because his or her work advances smoothly, without accidents to himself or herself or his or her companions or damage to tattoo equipment.  On the other half, an unskilled tattooist is identified by his or her haphazard approach to his or her tattoos; he or she does not practice tattoo safety and, therefore, he or she causes many accidents or even deaths to the clients.

Learning and practicing safety is the principal step towards getting skilled, and has a direct effect on the lives of people being tattooed (tattooees). 

Always remember, the best way of performing any tattooing task is the safest one.

Safety and Hygiene in the Tattoo Studio

Safety in the tattoo studio should be the concern of both the tattooer and tattooee.  Progressive tattoo studio should have safety departments as part of their art organization.  Respective safety officers should have the duty of checking and making sure that the equipment and the working environment is maintained at the highest safety standards.

They should be empowered to recommend disciplinary action against the tattooer who constantly violates safety rules at the studio or anywhere within the working environment.  They should organise safety seminars and in-service courses or clinics for tattooers and management to meet emerging trends in tattoo industry; for example, safety and training measures pertaining to digital or LED tattoos.  The safety department personnel should not be directly engaged in tattooing, but their efforts should help to maintain high tattoo art impression productivity, happy and healthy satisfied clients, and reduce contamination and damage to the tattoo studio equipment.  The safety department must endeavor to see tattooists are vaccinated appropriately to minimize any unforeseen epidemic.

Unfortunately, there are tattoo firm managers who do not care for the safety of their employees or tattooists other than the customers or tattooees due to monetary gain.  Tattooists are made to work without proper protective gear; the installation and maintenance of the tattooing machines and equipment is not done with safety in mind.  A poor tattoo studio or shop breeds dislike between the tattooists and the management.  Such a situation results in poor work-relationships in which customers or tattooees are lost.  No one wants to lose after arduous work to come up with expensive and enormous tattoo studio.

That is enough for the working environment; let’s go the tattooee and tattooist. 

Proper hygienic conditions must be placed in order.  Cases have been recorded in areas where paramount attention is given to machines and inks and not the tattooee.   In ultraviolet (UV) tattooing, for instance, the tattooee is neither warned of the prolonged consequences of tattooing action nor he or she warned of the effect of the UV ink in the long run on the skin.  Remember UV tattoos are luminous in the dark and this cannot deny us the logic UV radiation being carcinogenic on somatic cells as well.

Comfort or pain

The art of tattooing is painful.  This is also part of tattoo safety.  The tattooee should be prepared for the occasion by watching others being tattooed. A tattooist would not be pleased if his or her client turns out to be a screamer.  The tattoo studio should be seen as place where silence for work rules and not shouting and horse-playing.

Areas of low nerve concentration like thighs, hips and buttocks would be stressed as regions of priority for tattooing to reduce pain.  Intricacy of the design would also play a lot of discomfort.  It is good to have the tattooee comfort and wants at heart.  Complex designs take more time and therefore tattooee has to pay more and that is economic safety the tattooee has to comprehend.  Let healthy and non-stressing working habits take the reign in all sphere of situation.

Safety in tattoo aftercare

The safety of tattooee includes the aftercare of tattooing.  The tattooee should be given appropriate measures he or she should observe to hasten healing and not to develop infections.  It is not wrong to tell the tattooee that during the agony of healing, he or she should keep away from the dog. Dogs tend to probe the wounds.

After tattooing, some tattooees do suffer from itchiness.  The cause of this perhaps would be due development of allergic reactions to the tattoo ink, changes in body reactions like onset of high blood pressure and sometimes irritating weather conditions.

A tattooee should not take of the above for granted.  Medical attention should be sought from a dermatologist to alert of any eminent danger ahead.

Safety in tattoo removal

Finally, removers of tattoos cannot be forgotten.  Safe removal method should be aimed at.  Currently, photothermolyses are the best option. Photothermolysis employs laser removal by targeting the tinctures or dyes in the skin.  Using of this method requires one to be healthy. Being healthy means the body defense system both internally and on the surface should be apt. 

After the removal service, the casualty is required to keep off smoking for a while, say at least two weeks, and also avoid irradiation by strong rays like radiant heat and sun basking which also has UV radiation. 

On the aspect of costing, photothermolysis is prohibitively dear meanwhile but it remains a smarter method over traditional laceration or abrasion of the skin tattoo removal methods.

Be it post-tattooing or post-photothermolysis cares, the casualty is advised to look for proper medical care should complications develop.

Tattoo financial safety

Wearing tattoos, tattoo aftercares, tattoo removals and tattoo removal aftercares require financial backing.  Adequate investments should come from either parties proportionately to make tattoo art flourish.