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Safe Injection & Multi-dose Vials

What Is It? Safe injection includes practices intended to prevent transmission of infectious diseases between one patient and another or between a patient and healthcare provider, and also to prevent harm such as needlestick injuries. All employees need to follow basic safe injection procedures.   Safe techniques involve handling, preparing, and storing...

Handling Laboratory Specimens

What Is It? A specimen is any bodily substance taken from a person for analysis, e.g., blood, urine, stool, tissue, and fluid. Specimens can therefore pose a health risk to all employees having contact with them. For this reason, it's essential to apply standard precautions when handling laboratory specimens.   ...

Safe Handling of Sharps

What Is It? The classification of sharps includes needles, scalpels, razor blades, stitch cutters, broken glass, auto lancets, IV cannula stilettes, and IV giving set spikes. Sharps injuries can occur in any healthcare setting, including home healthcare and long-term care facilities. Injuries most often occur During the use of a sharp...

Reprocessing of Medical Instruments and Equipment

What Is It? Generally, residential aged care facilities would not use items that require sterilisation for reuse. Disposable single-use equipment and dressing items would generally be used. However, if items need to be sterilised, then a suitable service provider must be sourced by the facility which is able to/must comply with...

Respiratory Hygiene (Cough Etiquette)

What Is It? To prevent the transmission of all respiratory infections in healthcare settings, infection control measures should be implemented at the first point of contact with a potentially infected person. Respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette should be applied as standard infection control precautions at all times. Covering sneezes and...

Hand Hygiene

What Is It? Hand hygiene is a general term referring to any action of hand cleaning and includes The washing of hands systematically by rubbing all surfaces of lathered hands vigorously with a mild liquid handwash for 10-15 seconds under running water and drying with single-use paper towels or cloths....