This resource provides guidance to assist the appropriate placement of patients receiving care in healthcare facilities, which is an important element of transmission-based precautions to prevent the spread of infection.
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These data definitions should be used for auditing to ensure consistency of data.
Integrating clinical governance
Integrating clinical governance
Reprocessing of reusable equipment and devices meets current best practice and is consistent with recurrent national standards.
This page includes resources for implementation of the Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards (Primary and Community Healthcare Standards).
The Commission has developed new training pathways for Hand Hygiene Auditors (previously called General Auditors) and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators (previously called Gold Standard Auditors).
The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare was jointly developed by the Commission and the NHMRC. The Guidelines, together with Commission guidance for specific organisms, provide healthcare workers and health service organisations with support to develop tailored local protocols and processes for infection prevention and control.
Prevention and control of VRE is an important patient safety issue for Australian healthcare.
Data on hand hygiene compliance are collected by states and territories for all public health service organisations, and by many private health service organisations, and reported nationally three times per year for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
Annual revalidation is a method of ensuring all Hand Hygiene Auditors and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators remain up to date with their knowledge of the 5 Moments and audit practices. This ensures valid and reliable data for the National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI).
The NHHI LMS hosts the hand hygiene, infection prevention and control modules and hand hygiene auditor online learning.
Guidance for clinicians on the ten evidence-based quality statements from the clinical care standard, as well as helpful resources.
Environmentally sustainable infection prevention and control (IPC) practices improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
The NHHI LMS hosts the hand hygiene, infection prevention and control modules and hand hygiene auditor online learning. Health service organisations (excluding aged care) with 10+ staff can register for access to the NHHI LMS.
Registering an organisation allows learners (staff) to link their profiles to your organisation in the NHHI LMS.Organisations do not need to register for its staff (learners) to access the NHHI online learning modules. The organisation name does not appear on any completion certificates.
This page provides information on Hand Hygiene Auditor Educator Training.
The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Advisory Committee provides a mechanism for the Commission to consult with experts and key stakeholders on the development and implementation of national initiatives related to IPC.
The National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) operates a Help Desk to support users of the NHHI Learning Management System (LMS) and the Hand Hygiene Compliance Application (HHCApp).
Please note that the NHHI Help Desk phone line will be closed from Tuesday 22 April to Thursday 24 April 2025.
The Help Desk team endeavours to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible. You will receive a response within 5 business days.
Advice on using the data collected through surveys of patient safety culture.
World Hand Hygiene Day is held annually on 5 May. The 'Save Lives: Clean Your Hands' global campaign was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009.
New resources are now available for World Hand Hygiene Day 2025.