Resource Links to Hand Hygiene Resources Worldwide

Find hand hygiene materials and resources from across Canada and around the world. Where links are available, please click the links to be redirected to the sites.

The Hand Hygiene Toolkit also contains links to these resources.

Canada

• Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Hand-washing
• CHICA Canada
• Do Bugs Need Drugs?
• Health Canada: The Benefits of Hand-washing
• Just Clean Your Hands Campaign, Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Ontario
• National Collaborating Center for Infectious Diseases (Canada)
• Public Health Agency of Canada: Hand Hygiene Recommendations for Remote and Isolated Community Settings
• Stop the Spread of Germs Health Promotion Campaign

Australia

• Debug Infection Prevention Program, Austin Health, Melbourne Australia
• Hand Hygiene Project. The Victorian Quality Council, Victoria Australia

Switzerland

• Hopisafe.ch.  Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneva (University of Geneva Hospitals).

United Kingdom

• Clean Your Hands Campaign, National Patient Safety Agency
• Scotland`s `Germs, Wash Your Hands of Them.``
• National Patient Safety Agency. Campaign to improve the Hand Hygiene of all Staff
• National Resource for Infection Control

United States

• Clean Hands, Save Lives!  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & the Clean Hands Coalition
• Hand Hygiene Resource Center, St. Raphael Healthcare System and Dr. John Boyce, New Haven Connecticut
• Depart of Veterans Affairs, Hand Hygiene Information and Tools
• Infection Control Today (ICT).  Magazine website that has a full section devoted to hand hygiene
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)  How to Guide for Improving Hand Hygiene
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Improvement Report on Improving Hand Hygiene Practices with Six Sigma
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Improvement Map

International

• World Health Organization: Clean Care is Safer Care
• World Health Organization: Tools and Resources
• World Health Organization