Australian Health Directory

Infection control is an important part of risk management for healthcare services. It involves the systematic application of policies and procedures to identify risks of infection, and analyse, assess and manage infection.

This category is in the process of listing resources, products and services that focus on infection control, assisting health service managers and professionals with adopting hygiene standards for the physical healthcare environment; adopting infection control policies and procedures; managing outbreaks of infection; managing the behaviour of healthcare workers and patients; staff education about infection control; hand hygiene; staff immunisation; occupational health and safety of staff; sterilisation and special processing of instruments and equipment; safe sharps management and management of blood and body fluid exposure; cleaning practice equipment; linen and waste management; processing of reusable equipment - on and off site sterilisation; managing single use items; infectious disease surveillance and management; establishing benchmark rates and introducing standardised analysis; and infection control documentation and reporting.

This category also lists cleaning and environmental services for hospitals and practices.