Infection prevention healthcare worker information

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

• Germs travel
• Now you have some time on your hands
• Bare Below the Elbows poster

Flu posters

• Protect yourself from the flu