Staffordshire salon introduces client sanitisation booth

A Staffordshire hair salon has introduced a booth that scans clients' faces and takes their temperatures before sanitising them and admitting them inside the salon.

81 Rose Garden in Newcastle under Lyme is owned by entrepreneur Tony Trowers, CEO of The Pillar Box Group, and his partner Jen Regan. 

The sanitisation booth resembles a public phone box and is fitted with a camera and computer for facial recognition, which scans the customer's face and takes their temperature. If their temperature is normal, the door automatically admits the customer into the booth. When inside the booth, the customer is sprayed with a light mist of sanitising agent before being allowed entry into the salon. The booth uses chlorine dioxide liquid with nano technology, known as VirusZero.

Once inside the salon, clients are protected further with Perspex screens between customers and cashiers, barriers between workstations and backwashes, and stylists wearing full PPE.

Commenting, 81 Rose Garden owner, Tony Trowers, says:

"Until we were faced with the Covid-19 pandemic I never even thought about PPE or sanitising products - now I am an expert in them! 

"This technology and its applications could really help other businesses like ours and aid the successful reopening of pubs, restaurants, medical centres, schools - every aspect of British life!

"With products like these we could not only get the hairdressing industry, but Britain back on the road to recovery."