In WA, waxing, shaving, tweezing and electrolysis are skin penetration procedures under the Health (Skin Penetration Procedures) Regulations 1998 and their Code of Practice, and WA Health says (opens in a new tab) an establishment must tell its local government its trading name, address and the procedures it plans to offer. Our Perth hair salon page explains how hairdressing dropped out of council approvals in 2024 while waxing stayed in. What a beauty owner meets in practice depends on the council. The Town of Cambridge (opens in a new tab) wants a Skin Penetration Procedure Establishment Application with details of floor and wall finishes, hand basins, the workspace layout and waste bins, at least two sinks and an ASIC business registration, and notes that Ahpra-registered practitioners and people working under a doctor's supervision sit outside the Regulations. The City of Vincent (opens in a new tab) takes the application by email, then an Environmental Health Officer inspects before opening; that inspection can take up to two hours and Vincent suggests booking it at least two weeks ahead. The City of Kalamunda (opens in a new tab) lists beauty therapy and nail salons as skin penetration premises, inspects them routinely once approved, and sends anyone working from home to its planning service for a home occupation approval.
Lasers are where WA asks the most of a beauty business. The Radiological Council's guidelines for cosmetic use of lasers (opens in a new tab) (revision 2.1, October 2026) say the premises and every Class 3B and Class 4 laser must be registered, even one in storage, and that each operator needs a licence or exemption or must work under a WA licensee's supervision. For a therapist who isn't a doctor or nurse, the prerequisites (opens in a new tab) are a recognised laser safety course plus at least 25 hours of supervised practical training for hair removal, 100 hours for non-ablative cosmetic work (a purpose introduced in December 2025 to replace the narrower superficial cosmetic one), or a tattoo removal course and 100 hours with at least 50 in tattoo removal, each signed off by a WA licensee. Where no medical practitioner is directly involved in the clinic, an Ahpra-registered medical practitioner has to endorse the laser policies in writing, and for tattoo removal confirm they're available for medical support, which needn't be in person. A therapist who already holds a Queensland or Tasmanian cosmetic laser licence can use it towards the WA equivalent, which is worth a line on the team page if you've hired from interstate.
Those rules shape the booking path as much as the wording. Because pigment, vascular and other non-ablative laser courses, and tattoo removal, need a documented in-person skin check before each new course, a clinic site works best with a consultation as the bookable first step and the course priced underneath it. Laser hair removal is excluded from that requirement, so it can go straight to Book now. Either way, the practitioner and the clinic decide what is compliant; we arrange the words you give us and point to the Council's guidance rather than interpret it. National advertising limits for injectables are on our main beauty salon page.
Tanning menus need checking too. Cancer Council WA (opens in a new tab) says commercial solariums were banned in WA in 2015, with the ban taking effect in January 2016, and that charging for tanning sessions is illegal and can be reported to the Radiological Council. It also warns about collariums, modified sunbeds marketed as a healthier option that still emit UV. If you've taken over a salon that once had a sunbed, check old price lists and directory listings, and keep the website's tanning section to spray and airbrush tans.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Perth businesses by phone and email. Perth stays on Western Standard Time all year, so a call at 7:30 am before your first client is 9 or 10 am in Adelaide, depending on daylight saving, and emails can wait until the room is free. We haven't built for a WA business yet; our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD.