Hand Hygiene

Hand hygiene is an effective strategy to prevent spread of infections. Hand hygiene is a required practice for all health care providers and is recommended in all national and international infection control guidelines. Click one of the resource links below to view the hand hygiene resource. 

Best Practices for Hand Hygiene in All Health Care Settings

This document outlines the procedures for proper hand hygiene in health care settings across the continuum of care including, but not limited to, pre-hospital care, acute care, complex continuing care, rehabilitation facilities, long-term care, chronic care, home health care and ambulatory care, including physician offices, community health centres and clinics, independent health facilities (IHF) and out-of-hospital premises (OHP).

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) : How to wash your hands (Fact Sheet)

This fact sheet provides the proper process for hand hygiene, including both hand washing and hand sanitizing.

Public Health Ontario: Hand Hygiene for COVID-19 Prevention

Public Health Ontario's resource page for hand hygiene includes various resources regarding best practice and education for proper hand hygiene. These resources include hand washing video, hand sanitizing video, information on contact dermatitis, and the provincial "Just Clean Your Hands" campaign information.

Just Clean Your Hands (JCYH) Program

Just Clean Your Hands (JCYH) program was developed to help reduce health care-associated infections and the spread of infection by providing focused education and tools for promotion, evaluation and auditing to health care providers.

Just Clean Your Hands Videos

The Just Clean Your Hands (JCYH) program was developed to help reduce health care-associated infections and the spread of infection by providing focused education and tools for promotion, evaluation and auditing to health care providers.