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Safe Hands

A practical guide to safe nail practice in the Caribbean

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What this is

If you work on nails in Guyana, there is no national licence, the national salon standard is short and voluntary, and most technicians in this region taught themselves. That is how a whole industry got built here. It also means a lot of information that keeps you and your clients safe never reached the people who needed it.

Safe Hands is that information, written down and given away. Thirty-five sections covering decontamination, blood, dust and vapour, product chemistry, the client consultation, the pedicure station, the electric file, and what to do when you see something you should not work on.

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Not one, including ours. The guide describes what a product must do, never which one to buy.

Written for a phone

Plain language, short sections, and a one-page station card for the wall above your desk.

Start with the station card

One sheet, printed both sides. The three levels of decontamination and what each tool needs, what to do when there is blood, the signs that mean stop, the words that work when you have to decline a client, your daily and weekly routine, and a referral note you can photocopy and hand over.

If you read nothing else here, print that.

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About the author

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Theon Alleyne, CRCP, CCEP is a compliance professional of twenty-six years, whose career was built at UBS, the New York Stock Exchange, FINRA, JP Morgan and IBM. He is the principal of EICCIO Advisors, a corporate compliance and business consultancy in Guyana.

He has written for this trade before. Through Team Shaw Caribbean Press, which he founded, he published From Beginner to Pro 7x Faster by Lexann McPhoy, Silver Level Global NSI Educator, and wrote its two chapters on health and safety. Safe Hands is the material that would not fit inside them.

He is also the author of Letters to a Compliance Officer: What They Never Told You About the Job That Protects Everyone, the first practitioner memoir on compliance written from the Caribbean.

He is not a doctor and he is not a nail technician, which the guide says on its own pages. What a compliance career teaches is how to find what is true and set it down so that the person doing the work can rely on it.

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Edition and corrections

This page always carries the current edition. If you are holding a printed or photocopied Safe Hands, check the edition below against yours before you rely on it. A printed guide cannot correct itself.

Edition1.0
PublishedAugust 2026
Corrections issuedNone to date
Corrections toinfo@lncprosuite.com

Corrections are welcome from anyone, at any level of experience. If you are a doctor, dermatologist or podiatrist, a review of the health content would be particularly valuable. Contributors are credited by name.

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What it is not

Nothing in it is compulsory. It is general information for a whole trade, not advice about your salon or your client. Full terms of use and licence are in the guide.