Resources

Candida auris factsheets

Published: July 2025

Information for clinicians - Candida auris (PDF)
Information for patients, carers and visitors – Candida auris (PDF)

Clostridioides difficile factsheets

Updated: March 2025

Information for clinicians - Clostridioides difficile (PDF)
Information for patients and carers – Clostridioides difficile (PDF)
Information for residential aged care – Clostridioides difficile (PDF)

Household cleaning and disinfection information - Mpox (PDF)

Updated: February 2025

Household cleaning and disinfection information including Mpox cleaning and disinfection quick reference guide for domestic and non-healthcare settings.

Infection Prevention and Control Information for Clinicians - Mpox (PDF)

Updated: October 2024

This document provides expert infection prevention and control guidance on mpox to support community, hospital, and institutional settings including sexual health clinics, primary care, and laboratories.

Optimising Diagnostic Stewardship (video)

Published: 18 July 2024

The CEC has produced a short video for all NSW Health staff who take blood cultures for clinical diagnoses. The video was developed in response to the current blood culture bottle shortage, as best practice blood culture collection will improve how blood cultures are used and potentially prevent some wastage.

Diagnostic Stewardship Blood Cultures (PDF)

Published: 11 July 2024 

This document includes information on key aspects of blood culture collection and a short reference guide on some clinical conditions requiring blood culture collection including the performance of repeat blood cultures.

Risk assessment and escalation of temperature or humidity variation in perioperative and sterile stock environments (PDF)

Published: 19 April 2024 

In healthcare environments, maintaining the recommended temperature and humidity supports patient and health worker safety and comfort. This is particularly important in specialised areas, such as the operating theatre, perioperative environment and sterile stock areas where reusable medical devices are stored in bulk.

High Consequence Infectious Diseases - Infection Prevention and Control Principles (PDF)

Published: 15 April 2024 

Infection prevention and control guidance for managing suspected or confirmed cases of infections with a high consequence infectious disease (HCID). HCIDs are infectious diseases where the disease is not established in the NSW population, where there is a potential for human-to-human or animal-to-human spread and where the disease has a significant health impact on the individual or at a population level should widespread transmission occur.

Hand Washing Poster 1 (PDF)

Hand Washing Poster 2 (PDF)

Hand Washing Poster 3 (PDF)

Hand Washing Poster 4 (PDF)

Updated: 22 December 2023 

Four poster variations - 'This sink is for Hand Washing only'.

Cleaning and disinfecting virtual reality equipment V3.0 (PDF)

Updated: 5 December 2023 

Information for health workers about cleaning virtual reality equipment.

Protective Precautions poster (PDF)

Published: 6 November 2023 

This new resource provides a summary of protective precautions that health workers should always practice.

Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare

Published: 2019 | National Health and Medical Research Council

The guidelines are produced by the National Health and Medical Research Council in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare.

Transmission based precautions

Donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PDF)

Competency assessment – combined precautions.

Updated: April 2024

2022 Standard Precautions (PDF)

Published: 2022 | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Standard precautions must always be used when caring for all patients, regardless of their infection status.

2022 Droplet Precautions (PDF)

Published: 2022 | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Droplet precautions for all staff in addition to standard precautions.

2022 Airborne Precautions (PDF)

Published: 2022 | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Airborne precautions for all staff in addition to standard precautions.

2022 Contact Precautions (PDF)

Published: 2022 | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Contact precautions for all staff in addition to standard precautions.

Contact Droplet Airborne – Gown and Gloves separately – Portrait (PDF)

Updated: 24 April 2020 

Donning and doffing sequence poster (removing gown and gloves separately) when implementing combined precautions in ward areas during COVID-19.

Contact Droplet – Gown and Gloves together – Portrait (PDF)

Updated: 15 April 2020 

Donning and doffing sequence poster (removing gown and gloves together) when implementing combined precautions in ward areas during COVID-19.

Contact Droplet – Gown and Gloves separately – Portrait (PDF)

Updated: 14 April 2020 

Donning and doffing sequence poster (removing gown and gloves separately) when implementing combined precautions in ward areas during COVID-19.

Contact, Droplet, Airborne Precautions Operating/Procedural Rooms - Landscape (PDF)

Published: 17 March 2020 

Donning and doffing sequence poster when implementing combined precautions in operating/procedural rooms during COVID-19.

Contact and Droplet Precautions Operating/Procedural Rooms - Landscape (PDF)

Published: 17 March 2020 

Donning and doffing sequence when implementing combined precautions in operating/procedural rooms during COVID-19.

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE)

Carbapenemase‐producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are multidrug‐resistant gram‐negative bacteria that are resistant to most, or even all types of antibiotics.

Updated: May 2025

• Information for clinicians
• Information for patients, family and visitors

Published: May 2025

• Information for patients, family and visitors - CPE in pregnant women and newborns.