&gt; You mean there are no &quot;safety reasons&quot; involved in cutting hair?<p>Ah, but this isn&#x27;t really for &quot;safety reasons&quot;, it&#x27;s for &quot;legal reasons&quot;. Sweden is widely regarded as one of the (if not the) most safety concerned countries, after all we &quot;gave&quot;(1) the world Volvo and Autoliv (among others). Yet the idea of regulating barbershops for safety reasons is totally alien here. We tend to trust that people have a common sense. This seems not to be the case in the US. This is mostly because of the legal system, whereas in Sweden you cannot sue someone else because <i>you</i> lack (or pretend to lack) common sense. In fact, the idea would never even occur to most people here.<p>(1) No, we&#x27;re not giving away Volvos, you need to buy one yourself.