What do BAQA standards mean for Piercing?

For Piercing, BAQA guidance addresses sterilisation, anatomy considerations, jewellery materials, equipment, aftercare, and risk management.

Read the full Piercing Standards for the published BAQA guidance. The purpose is to support safer, more consistent, ethical, and professionally accountable practice.

These standards support good practice but do not replace mandatory laws, licences, inspections, health requirements, or insurer conditions where the practitioner works.

Piercing practitioner and client discussing paperwork at a consultation desk
Client consultation
Gloved practitioner preparing individually packaged instruments on a tray
Equipment preparation
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