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Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions; the first-line in infection prevention and control in the healthcare environment. Updated July 2020.

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions, the first-line in infection prevention and control in health care. Auditing of cleaning practice is an important part of this process.

This factsheet provides guidance on selecting suitable cleaning products for environmental cleaning in health service organisations.

Information for consumers regarding the use of face masks to protect against the transmission of COVID-19.

This report describes priority actions to prevent and manage of Clostridioides difficile infection in Australia.

This poster illustrates the chain of transmission of infection for acute respiratory infections and highlights how to interrupt the spread of infection.

The poster was developed in conjunction with NSW Health Clinical Excellence Commission.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to support health service organisations with implementation of partial easing of restrictions on elective surgery, investigations and procedures and standard and transmission-based infection prevention and control precautions.

This resource was last updated on 5 August 2020.

To reduce the risk of transmission of infectious agents, PPE must be used appropriately. The following poster outlines sequences and procedures for putting on and removing PPE. Please refer to the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare for further information on the use of PPE for infection prevention and control.

The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care provide evidence-based recommendations about the critical aspects of infection prevention and control, focusing on core principles and priority areas for action. All health service organisations should consider the risk of transmission of infection and implement these recommendations according to their specific setting and circumstances.

This report includes analyses on the burden of CDI in Australian public hospitals in 2017.