Safety & Integrity
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Foundationals
We pride ourselves on ensuring we maintain extremely high standards with our safety, hygiene, and quality policies. Aotearoa has an incredibly unregulated piercing and tattooing industry, with very little quality control existing at a government level. Because of this, we align ourselves with the standards set out by the AUPP and APP (Australasian and American, respectively, Associations of Professional Piercers) as well as aiming to promote knowledge and education within and around the industry wherever possible.
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Sterility
Reclamation uses a cassette autoclave, a Statim G4 2000, which has the ability to sterilise in less than 10 minutes. This allows us to sterilise jewellery and piercing equipment on demand. Not only does this ensure the highest possible level of sterilisation, it means there is no opportunity for sterile items to be compromised while in storage.
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We test our autoclave daily to ensure complete sterilisation cycles.
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Hygiene
We use non-sterile nitrile gloves for prepping and marking and then sterile gloves for piercing procedures. Our marking, prep, and piercing supplies are all fully disposable, removing cross-contamination risk. We have diligent cleanliness protocols for practitioners and the studio space.
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We use Stiletto Piercing Disposables and Industrial Strength Needles.
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Ethics
Focusing on ethical piercing practices has always been a cornerstone of Will's methodology. We work off informed consent and ensure thorough communication throughout the piercing process and the piercing healing journey.
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We strive for transparent piercing practices and hold our suppliers to similar standards ensuring, where possible, our jewellery is ethical sourced. Read more about this on our jewellery page.
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One of the downsides of our industry, alongside the medical industry, is the hefty amount of disposables and therefore waste we produce. We are always looking for options to reduce our environmental impact. Swapping to a Statim autoclave was one of those; the Statim autoclave and on-demand sterilisation greatly reduced the need for sterile (plastic) packaging. Similarly, it's one of the reasons we love working with Junipurr as one of our jewellery brands, they plant trees with the $$$ we spend!