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The outcome:Every facility is accountable, lawfully operated and accurately represented.
Facility / unit: __________________________ Date: ______________
The outcome:Every facility is accountable, lawfully operated and accurately represented.
EG1.1: Declared facilities and responsible person
The business must declare every salon, home-based facility and mobile unit it operates or controls.
Each facility must have a person responsible for its safety and be available for assessment. Shared areas that affect the grooming facility must be included.
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Requirement
The business must identify every fixed premises, home-based work area and mobile unit it operates or materially controls, together with the person responsible for facility safety. Each must be available for assessment. Shared areas affecting the grooming facility must be included.
What the Assessor Checks
Compare the facility register with the business’s normal operating arrangements.
Result:☐ Meets Standard☐ Action Required☐ Critical Non-Compliance☐ Not Applicable
Assessor Notes / Evidence / N/A reason:______________________________________________________
EG1.2: Applicable New Zealand requirements
The facility must meet all relevant New Zealand animal welfare, workplace safety, building, fire, electrical, chemical, water, wastewater and local council requirements.
Required permissions, consents and certificates must be current. Any conditions attached to them must be met.
Where the requirements are unclear, the business must seek advice from the relevant authority or a suitably qualified person.
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Requirement
The business must identify and meet the animal-welfare, workplace-safety, building, fire, electrical, hazardous-substances, water, wastewater and local council requirements applying to its facilities. Required permissions, consents and certificates must be current and their conditions met. Where applicability is uncertain, the business must obtain clarification from the relevant authority or qualified person.
What the Assessor Checks
Sample relevant approvals and conditions; do not assume every salon needs the same consents.
Result:☐ Meets Standard☐ Action Required☐ Critical Non-Compliance☐ Not Applicable
Assessor Notes / Evidence / N/A reason:______________________________________________________
EG1.3: Facility capacity
Each facility must have a stated maximum number of dogs that can safely be present.
This must take account of usable space, secure holding areas, ventilation, access and the ability to evacuate every dog. Dogs waiting for collection must be included.
The facility must not exceed this number. These Standards do not set a fixed floor area per dog or staff-to-dog ratio.
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Requirement
The business must set a practical maximum number of dogs that may be present at each facility, based on usable space, available secure holding, ventilation, access and emergency evacuation. Occupancy must remain within that capacity, including dogs waiting for collection. No fixed floor area per dog or staff-to-dog ratio is imposed by this standard.
What the Assessor Checks
Compare declared capacity with the layout and peak occupancy; test the evacuation assumptions.
Result:☐ Meets Standard☐ Action Required☐ Critical Non-Compliance☐ Not Applicable
Assessor Notes / Evidence / N/A reason:______________________________________________________
EG1.4: Accurate certification claims
The business must describe its certification accurately and identify the facilities covered.
Certification must not be presented as approval of individual groomers, grooming techniques or handling practices.
All Things Dog must be notified of new or significantly altered facilities before they are advertised as certified.
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Requirement
Certification claims must describe grooming facility certification and identify the facilities covered. They must not imply certification of individual groomers, grooming techniques or handling practices. New or materially altered facilities must be notified to All Things Dog before being represented as certified.
What the Assessor Checks
Review public claims and arrangements for adding or changing sites or units.
Result:☐ Meets Standard☐ Action Required☐ Critical Non-Compliance☐ Not Applicable
Assessor Notes / Evidence / N/A reason:______________________________________________________
Evidence
Facility register, capacity statement, relevant permissions, certificates and public certification claims.