Infection prevention healthcare worker information
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Information brochures
We have produced several information brochures for healthcare workers about healthcare associated infections and associated topics:
- Standard precautions – a guide for healthcare workers
- Transmission based precautions – a guide for healthcare workers
- Aseptic non-touch technique
- Hand hygiene in residential and aged care
- Hand hygiene program advice for Statewide and mental health services
- Preventing catheter associated urinary tract infection
- Checklist for indwelling catheter insertion
- Infection control management of Clostridiodes difficile infection
- Guidance for the decolonisation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Pathogens of concern guidelines for non-acute settings
- CPE management and surveillance protocol
- Multi-Resistant organisms: clearance - information for General Practitioners
Standardised signs for standard and transmission-based precautions
The Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare developed the following suite of standard and transmission-based precautions signs. They are badged with the Tasmanian Government logo and available for use in Tasmanian public healthcare facilities.
Image posters
- Airborne Precautions + Standards Image
- Airborne Precautions Image
- Airborne Precautions Landscape Image
- Contact Precautions + Standards Image
- Contact Precautions Landscape Image
- Contact Precautions Image
- Droplet Precautions + Standards Image
- Droplet Precautions Landscape Image
- Droplet Precautions Image
- Standard Precautions Image
Icon posters
- Airborne Precautions + Standards Icon
- Airborne Precautions Icon
- Airborne Precautions Landscape Icon
- Contact Precautions + Standards Icon
- Contact Precautions Landscape Icon
- Contact Precautions Icon
- Droplet Precautions+ Standards Icon
- Droplet Precautions Landscape Icon
- Droplet Precautions Icon
- Standard Precautions Icon
Hand hygiene posters
Posters for healthcare workers
- 0-10 000 in 60 seconds
- A whole world in your hands
- Are you unclear? Know the procedure like the back of your hand
- Clean sweep
- Don't be off hand - care about hand hygiene
- Don't infect – protect
- Don't leave it to chance. Take control of hand hygiene
- Don't put patients at risk. Make hand hygiene your priority
- Glove abuse
- Handle with care
- I do - so can you
- Kick bugs into touch
- Little breeders
- Social climbers
- Stop infection in its tracks
- Takeaways
- The 5 moments of hand hygiene
- The bug stops here
- The hitcher
- Think they're clean?
- Trendy
- War of the wards
- You put your left hand in…
Posters for public areas within healthcare facilities
- All hands to the pump
- I care about your health... it's ok to ask if I've cleaned my hands 1
- I care about your health... it's ok to ask if I've cleaned my hands 2
- We do - so can you
General hand hygiene messages
Flu posters
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