Infection Prevention Best Practices
The everyday infection prevention habits that protect people you support and your colleagues.
Infection prevention and control (IPC) is built from small habits repeated reliably. The basics matter more than any single intervention.
Hand hygiene
Five moments for hand hygiene: before patient contact, before clean/aseptic procedure, after body fluid exposure risk, after patient contact, after contact with surroundings.
PPE
Right item, right time, donned and doffed in the right order. Practice doffing — that's where most contamination happens.
Environment
Clean as you go. High-touch surfaces first. Avoid clutter that can't be cleaned.
Sharps and waste
Point-of-use disposal. Never re-sheath needles. Colour-coded waste segregation.
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